„I don’t underrate the value of military knowledge, but if men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.“

— Ulysses S. Grant

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„War makes men barbarous because, to take part in it, one must harden oneself against all regret, all appreciation of delicacy and sensitive values. One must live as if those values did not exist, and when the war is over one has lost the resilience to return to those values.“
— Cesare Pavese
„I absolutely do not pretend in the slightest fashion to knowledge of military science.“
— Vladimir Lenin
„Never underrate the boss! The boss may look illiterate. He may look stupid. But there is no risk at all in overrating a boss. If you underrate him he will bitterly resent it or impute to you the deficiency in brains and knowledge you imputed to him.“
— Peter F. Drucker