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If you're avoiding war and you don't have the ability to win war, you're not peaceful or virtuous, you're just weak.
by deathgrips 6y ago
If you're avoiding war and you don't have the ability to win war, you're not peaceful or virtuous, you're just weak.
- memexy 6y ago“Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.” ― James P. Carse, Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility
- Gibbon1 6y agoTip: If you can't win the peace you're weak no matter how many weapons you have. I'm half a century old. The US hasn't managed to win the peace in my lifetime. Every attempt to impose it's will by force has left it weaker not stronger.