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Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#161 - 2016-05-12 23:04:39 UTC  |  Edited by: Veine Miromme
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite. Winston Churchill

Citizens sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
George Orwell

Quotes
In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

Big Brother is watching you.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-25/10-george-orwell-quotes-predicted-life-2014-america
1) “In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.”

2) “All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

3) “War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”

4) “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.”

5) “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

6) “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”

7) “In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer…”

8) “The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”

9) “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.”

10) “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”


https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2015/06/10-of-the-best-george-orwell-quotes.html
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” - Animal Farm

“He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” - 1984

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.” - Animal Farm

“On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.” - All Art is Propaganda: Critical Essays

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - 1984

“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals. He sets them to work, he gives back to them the bare minimum that will prevent them from starving, and the rest he keeps for himself.” - Animal Farm

“Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” - 1984

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.” - Reflections on Gandhi.

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.” - 1984
A Startling View of Life in 1984
Forbidden Love . . . . Fear . . . . Betrayal
A dystopia (from the Greek δυσ- and τόπος, alternatively, cacotopia, kakotopia, or simply anti-utopia) is a community or society that is undesirable or frightening.


http://classiclit.about.com/od/orwellgeorge/a/George-Orwell-Quotes.htm
* "A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
- George Orwell

* "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
- George Orwell

* "A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
- George Orwell

* "Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
- George Orwell

* "All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."
- George Orwell

* "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
- George Orwell

* "As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
- George Orwell

* "At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."
- George Orwell

* "But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
- George Orwell

* "Dickens is one of those authors who are well worth stealing."
- George Orwell

* "Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
- George Orwell

* "Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
- George Orwell

* "Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
- George Orwell

* "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
- George Orwell

* "Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
- George Orwell

* "For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity."
- George Orwell

* "Four legs good, two legs bad."
- George Orwell

* "Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
- George Orwell

* "Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell

* "Good writing is like a windowpane."
- George Orwell

* "Happiness can exist only in acceptance."
- George Orwell

* "He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
- George Orwell

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Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#162 - 2016-05-12 23:46:49 UTC
...
"I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment."
- George Orwell

"I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
- George Orwell

"I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man."
- George Orwell

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
- George Orwell

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
- George Orwell

"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."
- George Orwell

"It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the
defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the
word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
- George Orwell

"It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own
personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
- George Orwell

"Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."
- George Orwell

"Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
- George Orwell

"Liberal: a power worshipper without power."
- George Orwell

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Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#163 - 2016-05-13 00:02:23 UTC
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Looking at the history I don't see any difference.

Besides, people are more interested in which toilet a transgender person has the right to enter than the ever occuring boots in the face of humanity.

Just for the record, in the past pissing in the bushes did not result in any transgender drama

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#164 - 2016-05-13 01:08:24 UTC
Gimme Sake wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Looking at the history I don't see any difference.

Besides, people are more interested in which toilet a transgender person has the right to enter than the ever occuring boots in the face of humanity.

Just for the record, in the past pissing in the bushes did not result in any transgender drama

So much intelligence going on the local inn that it seems easier to have sexual conditions issues.
I mean, what if it was to save a city from certain military take over?

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Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#165 - 2016-05-13 07:55:36 UTC
Veine Miromme wrote:
Gimme Sake wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Looking at the history I don't see any difference.

Besides, people are more interested in which toilet a transgender person has the right to enter than the ever occuring boots in the face of humanity.

Just for the record, in the past pissing in the bushes did not result in any transgender drama

So much intelligence going on the local inn that it seems easier to have sexual conditions issues.
I mean, what if it was to save a city from certain military take over?



* "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
- George Orwell

Obviously not the reason.

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#166 - 2016-05-13 12:53:09 UTC
Gimme Sake wrote:
Veine Miromme wrote:
Gimme Sake wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Looking at the history I don't see any difference.

Besides, people are more interested in which toilet a transgender person has the right to enter than the ever occuring boots in the face of humanity.

Just for the record, in the past pissing in the bushes did not result in any transgender drama

So much intelligence going on the local inn that it seems easier to have sexual conditions issues.
I mean, what if it was to save a city from certain military take over?



* "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
- George Orwell

Obviously not the reason.

Gimme Sake wrote:
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-25/10-george-orwell-quotes-predicted-life-2014-america
10) “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”

Once the people are indoctrinated with nationalistic beliefs, and the infrastructure to protect them from some constantly-changing and ever-expanding definition of an enemy is in place, there is no ability for the people to regain liberty. By the time all of the pieces are in place, not only is opportunity to regain freedom, but the will to achieve freedom has also evaporated. The reader will truly love Big Brother.

Gimme Sake wrote:
* "Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility."
- George Orwell

Obviously not the reason.


en·light·ened
inˈlītnd,enˈlītnd/
adjective
having or showing a rational, modern, and well-informed outlook.
"the more enlightened employers offer better terms"
synonyms: informed, well informed, aware, sophisticated, advanced, developed, liberal, open-minded, broad-minded, educated, knowledgeable, wise; More
* spiritually aware.

http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/kipling/english/e_rkip
2nd paragraph from the top:
In its context the sense of the line is almost the exact opposite of this. The phrase ‘lesser breeds’ refers
almost certainly to the Germans, and especially the pan-German writers, who are ‘without the Law’ in the sense
of being lawless, not in the sense of being powerless. The whole poem, conventionally thought of as an orgy of
boasting, is a denunciation of power politics, British as well as German. Two stanzas are worth quoting (I am
quoting this as politics, not as poetry):

If, drunk with sight of power, we loose
Wild tongues that have not Thee in awe,
Such boastings as the Gentiles use,
Or lesser breeds without the Law —
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget!

For heathen heart that puts her trust
In reeking tube and iron shard,
All valiant dust that builds on dust,
And guarding, calls not Thee to guard,
For frantic boast and foolish word —
Thy mercy on Thy People, Lord!

3rd paragraph from the top:
Much of Kipling's phraseology is taken from the Bible, and no doubt in the second stanza he had in mind the text
from Psalm CXXVII: ‘Except the lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it; except the Lord keep the
city, the watchman waketh but in vain.’ It is not a text that makes much impression on the post-Hitler mind. No
one, in our time, believes in any sanction greater than military power; no one believes that it is possible to
overcome force except by greater force. There is no ‘Law’, there is only power. I am not saying that that is a
true belief, merely that it is the belief which all modern men do actually hold. Those who pretend otherwise are
either intellectual cowards, or power-worshippers under a thin disguise, or have simply not caught up with the
age they are living in. Kipling's outlook is prefascist. He still believes that pride comes before a fall and
that the gods punish hubris. He does not foresee the tank, the bombing plane, the radio and the secret police,
or their psychological results.

...
6th paragraph from the top:
But because he identifies himself with the official class, he does possess one thing which ‘enlightened’ people
seldom or never possess, and that is a sense of responsibility. The middle-class Left hate him for this quite as
much as for his cruelty and vulgarity. All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at
bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to
destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with
which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are ‘enlightened’
all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our ‘enlightenment’,
demands that the robbery shall continue. A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling's understanding of
this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases. It would be difficult to hit off the
one-eyed pacifism of the English in fewer words than in the phrase, ‘making mock of uniforms that guard you
while you sleep’. It is true that Kipling does not understand the economic aspect of the relationship between
the highbrow and the blimp. He does not see that the map is painted red chiefly in order that the coolie may be
exploited. Instead of the coolie he sees the Indian Civil Servant; but even on that plane his grasp of function,
of who protects whom, is very sound. He sees clearly that men can only be highly civilized while other men,
inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them.

...

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Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#167 - 2016-05-13 13:29:17 UTC
...
20th and last paragraph:
One reason for Kipling's power as a good bad poet I have already suggested — his sense of responsibility, which
made it possible for him to have a world-view, even though it happened to be a false one. Although he had no
direct connexion with any political party, Kipling was a Conservative, a thing that does not exist nowadays.
Those who now call themselves Conservatives are either Liberals, Fascists or the accomplices of Fascists. He
identified himself with the ruling power and not with the opposition. In a gifted writer this seems to us
strange and even disgusting, but it did have the advantage of giving Kipling a certain grip on reality. The
ruling power is always faced with the question, ‘In such and such circumstances, what would you do?’, whereas
the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions. Where it is a permanent and
pensioned opposition, as in England, the quality of its thought deteriorates accordingly. Moreover, anyone who
starts out with a pessimistic, reactionary view of life tends to be justified by events, for Utopia never
arrives and ‘the gods of the copybook headings’, as Kipling himself put it, always return. Kipling sold out to
the British governing class, not financially but emotionally. This warped his political judgement, for the
British ruling class were not what he imagined, and it led him into abysses of folly and snobbery, but he gained
a corresponding advantage from having at least tried to imagine what action and responsibility are like. It is a
great thing in his favour that he is not witty, not ‘daring’, has no wish to épater les bourgeois. He dealt
largely in platitudes, and since we live in a world of platitudes, much of what he said sticks. Even his worst
follies seem less shallow and less irritating than the ‘enlightened’ utterances of the same period, such as
Wilde's epigrams or the collection of cracker-mottoes at the end of Man and Superman.

1942

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sense+of+responsibility
Noun 1. sense of responsibility - an awareness of your obligations
sense - a general conscious awareness; "a sense of security"; "a sense of happiness"; "a sense of danger"; "a sense of self"
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/sense%20of%20responsibility
Definitions of
sense of responsibility
1
n an awareness of your obligations

http://smallbusiness.chron.com/5-factors-demonstrate-strong-work-ethic-15976.html
Small Business > Managing Employees > Employee Morale
5 Factors That Demonstrate a Strong Work Ethic

Integrity
Sense of Responsibility
Emphasis on Quality
Discipline
Sense of Teamwork


http://philosiblog.com/2011/07/24/the-most-important-thing-is-to-have-a-sense-of-responsibility-commitment-and-concern-for-each-of-our-fellow-human-beings/
The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings. – Dalai Lama
What does that mean?
Why is duty to our fellow human beings important?
Where can I apply this in my life?
...Mother Teresa had some good advice for us in the pursuit of this duty, “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.”
...
From: Twitter, @DalaiLama
confirmed at : it’s his own feed…
Photo by markyturner


Personal note added:
as in,
Rights and duties conferred in marriage...
which only comes from having a good sense of responsibility.

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Gimme Sake
State War Academy
Caldari State
#168 - 2016-05-13 14:56:30 UTC
Dat "teach a man to fish quote"... much hated by babysitters.

"Never not blob!" ~ Plato
Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#169 - 2016-05-13 16:55:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Veine Miromme
https://www.google.ca/search?q=quote+on+coercion&oq=quote+on+coercion&aqs=chrome..69i57.3855j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/coercion.html

http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/coercion

https://www.google.ca/search?q=quote+on+coercion&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiMpIXkt9fMAhVMxoMKHeSKD8sQsAQIKA


Brainy Quote Coercion Quotes

The ideal of behaviorism is
to eliminate coercion: to
apply controls by changing
the environment in such a
way as to reinforce the kind
of behavior that benefits
everyone.

B. F. Skinner


A journey is a person in
itself; no two are alike. And
all plans, safeguards,
policing, and coercion are
fruitless. We find that after
years of struggle that we do
not take a trip; a trip takes
us.

John Steinbeck


If we wish to preserve a free
society, it is essential that we
recognize that the
desirability of a particular
object is not sufficient
justification for the use of
coercion.

Friedrich August von Hayek


Proselytizing is only wrong if
coercive or deceptive.
Coercion, whether violent or
not, is immoral, just as
deception is immoral.

David Novak



Remember that mindsets
can not be changed through
force and coercion. No idea
can ever be forcibly thrust
upon any one.

Pervez Musharraf



True freedom is the capacity
for acting according to one's
true character, to be
altogether one's self, to be
self-determined and not
subject to outside coercion.

Corliss Lamont



Coercion, after all, merely
captures man. Freedom
captivates him.

Robert McNamara
+Roland Reagan


If he who employs coercion
against me could mould me
to his purposes by argument,
no doubt he would. He
pretends to punish me
because his argument is
strong; but he really
punishes me because his
argument is weak.

William Godwin



Coercion may prevent many
transgressions; but it robs
even actions which are legal
of a part of their beauty.
Freedom may lead to many
transgressions, but it lends
even to vices a less ignoble
form.

Wilhelm von Humboldt



A law is not a law without
coercion behind it.

James A. Garfield


Because politics rests on an
irreducible measure of
coercion, it can never
become a perfect realm of
perfect love and justice.

Christopher Lasch


Universities are not here to
be mediums for the coercion
of other people, they're here
to be mediums for the free
exchange of ideas.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

...


goodread Quotes About Coercion

“One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.”
― Albert Einstein

“Evil would always come to me disguised in systems and dignified by law.”
― Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline

“Coercing attitude drains your strength.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

“It is the very use of coercion, positive or negative, that breaks or deadens the spirit, which is the source of motivation.”
― Kelly Bryson, Don't Be Nice, Be Real: Balancing Passion for Self with Compassion for Others

“No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

“Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.

Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.

Steal a fish from one guy and give it to another--and keep doing that on a daily basis--and you'll make the first guy pissed off, but you'll make the second guy lazy and dependent on you. Then you can tell the second guy that the first guy is greedy for wanting to keep the fish he caught. Then the second guy will cheer for you to steal more fish. Then you can prohibit anyone from fishing without getting permission from you. Then you can expand the racket, stealing fish from more people and buying the loyalty of others. Then you can get the recipients of the stolen fish to act as your hired thugs. Then you can ... well, you know the rest.”
― Larken Rose


Google Images quote on coercion

My method is conversion, not
coercion, it is self-suffering, not the
suffering of the tyrant. I know that
method to be infallible.

-- Muhatma Gandhi --


Can the mind become completely
still without coercion, without
compulsion, without discipline?

-- Jiddu Krishnamurti --


Dialectic thought is an attempt to break
through the coercion of logic by its own means.

(Theodor Adorno)

izquote.com


We do not force people to move to new homes,
we coerce them.

(Peiter Willem Botha)


Coercion is the bases of every law in the universe,
-- human or divine. A law is not law without
coercion behind it.

(James A. Garfield)


The exercise of one coercion always makes
another inevitable.

(Anders Chydenius)


Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority
is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction.
Authority is simply that the author has the right
to make a statement and to be heard.

(Herman Kahn)


There is no trick of a magician or spell of
a witch doctor, no drug or mesmerism
or bribery or torture or coercion that
can compare in power with the force for
change unleashed in the human breast
through the touch of love.

-- Mike Mason --
AZ Quotes

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Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#170 - 2016-05-13 16:58:17 UTC
"Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no
manhood at all."

Camille Paglia


"Coercion. The
unpardonable crime."
--Dorothy Miller Richardson


Coercion is the
eloquence of force

~ Ambrose Bierce ~

www.StatusMind.com


The "Private Sector"
of the Economy is,
in Fact, the
Voluntary Sector
and the "Public
Sector" is, in Fact,
the Coercive Sector

Henry Hazutt


Coercion created slavery, the
cowardice of the slaves
perpetuated it.

-Jean-Baptiste Rousseau


This is coercion, Bruce thundered.
The patrolman smiled. No sir, he said. This is
Texas.

(Bradley Denton)



Word uttered under coercion are
proof of loyalty to nothing but
self-interest. Love of country must
spring from willing hearts and free
minds.

-- Hugo Black --


An autocratic system of coercion, in my
opinion, soon degenerates. For force
always attracts men of low morality, and
I believe it to be an invariable rule that
tyrants of genius are succeeded by
scoundrels. For this reason I have always
been passionately opposed to systems
such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day.

Albert Einstein

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Jenn aSide
Soul Machines
The Initiative.
#171 - 2016-05-16 00:17:48 UTC
"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

– Ambassador Delenn
Snagletooth Scott
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#172 - 2016-05-16 02:06:03 UTC
Jenn aSide wrote:
"Only one human captain has ever survived battle with a Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."

– Ambassador Delenn


Yea?

“All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time”
– Lewis B. Chesty Puller, USMC
Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#173 - 2016-05-16 18:19:51 UTC

Sun Tzu / Quotes

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat.


Sun Tzu

Strategist

Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher who lived in the Spring and Autumn period of ancient China. Wikipedia

Born: Qi
Died: 496 BC, Wu



http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sun_tzu.html

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

Know thy self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories.

Invincibility lies in the defence; the possibility of victory in the attack.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

The opportunity to secure
ourselves against defeat lies
in our own hands, but the
opportunity of defeating the
enemy is provided by the
enemy himself.

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.



https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1771.Sun_Tzu
Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.”

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when we are able to attack,
we must seem unable; when using our forces, we must appear inactive;
when we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away;
when far away, we must make him believe we are near.”

If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected .”

In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity”

Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projections. It settles them into predictable patterns of response, occupying their minds while you wait for the extraordinary moment — that which they cannot anticipate.”

Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory:
1 He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
2 He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.
3 He will win whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.
4 He will win who, prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.
5 He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.”

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.”

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.”

Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain.”

When the enemy is relaxed, make them toil. When full, starve them. When settled, make them move.”

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.”

When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard.”

There are not more than five musical notes, yet the combinations of these five give rise to more melodies than can ever be heard.

There are not more than five primary colours, yet in combination
they produce more hues than can ever been seen.

There are not more than five cardinal tastes, yet combinations of
them yield more flavours than can ever be tasted.”

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.”

To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of
skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill”

who wishes to fight must first count the cost”

One may know how to conquer without being able to do it. ”

What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”

Be extremely subtle even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.”

He who is prudent and lies in wait for an enemy who is not, will be victorious.”

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand
in doubt; if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your
victory complete.”

Rouse him, and learn the principle of his activity or inactivity. Force
him to reveal himself, so as to find out his vulnerable spots.”

Thus the expert in battle moves the enemy, and is not moved by him.”

Anger may in time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by
content.
But a kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into
being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”



https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sun_Tzu#Chapter_XI_.C2.B7_The_Nine_Battlegrounds
Chapter XIII · Intelligence and Espionage
* It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.

* Now the reason the enlightened prince and the wise general conquer the enemy whenever ...

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Veine Miromme
Gallente Federation
#174 - 2016-05-17 19:58:28 UTC  |  Edited by: Veine Miromme
Veine Miromme wrote:
...


The "Private Sector"
of the Economy is,
in Fact, the
Voluntary Sector
and the "Public
Sector" is, in Fact,
the Coercive Sector

Henry Hazutt

...



4.4 — Implicit type conversion (coercion)
BY ALEX ON JUNE 19TH, 2007 | LAST MODIFIED BY ALEX ON APRIL 20TH, 2016


Type conversion
Security issues[edit]
In hacking, typecasting is the misuse of type conversion to temporarily change a variable's data type from how it was originally defined.[2] This provides opportunities for hackers since in type conversion after a variable is "typecast" to become a different data type, the compiler will treat that hacked variable as the new data type for that specific operation.[3]

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Ranzabar
Doomheim
#175 - 2016-05-18 02:27:28 UTC
Keep your expectations tiny and you won't be so whiny - Matt Groening

Abide
Moonacre Parmala
State War Academy
Caldari State
#176 - 2016-05-18 04:52:45 UTC
Murphy's Laws.

A short cut is the longest distance between 2 points

Anything that can go wrong will go wrong

No good deed goes unpunished

If you’re feeling good don’t worry, you’ll get over it.

90% of everything is crud.

Interchangeable parts – won’t

All warranties expire upon payment of invoice.

Where you stand on an issue depends upon where you sit.

Never eat prunes when you’re famished.

Leak-proof seals – will

Self-starters – won’t

If you try to please everybody, nobody will like it

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate

Everyone has a scheme to get rich that will not work.

In order to get a loan you must first prove you don’t need it.

Nature is a mother.

Don’t mess with Mrs Murphy

There is always 1 more bug

Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first

The chance of a piece of bread falling butter side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.

A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10 cents fuse by blowing first.

Anything you try to fix will take longer and cost more than you thought.

Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but that’s the way to bet.

A bird in the hand is safer than one overhead.

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening

If everything seems to be going well, you obviously don’t know what the hell is going on.

The repairman will have never seen a model quite like yours before.

In any Hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there.

No-one’s life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.

No matter how hard or long you shop for an item, it will always be on sale somewhere cheaper.

You will always find something in the last place you look.

The other line always moves faster.

Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will use it.

A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to put in his mouth.

The light at the end of the tunnel is the headlamp of an oncoming train.

If more than one person is responsible for a miscalculation, no-one will be at fault.

Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

Never sleep with anyone crazier than yourself.

Celibacy is not hereditary

Never argue with a fool, people might not know the difference.

To know yourself is the ultimate form of aggression.

Beauty is only skin deep, ugly goes down to the bone.

When in doubt, mumble. When in trouble, delegate.

In case of doubt, make it sound convincing

You remember to take out the trash when the garbage truck is 2 doors away.

Murphy’s golden rule. Whoever has the gold makes the rules.

It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.

There’s never time to do it right. But there’s always tie to do it over.

A Smith and Wesson beats 4 aces.

Everybody should believe in something. I believe I’ll have another drink.

Law Number III: There are no lazy veteran lion hunters.

Law Number VI: A hungry dog hunts best. A hungrier dog hunts even better.

Law Number XXXVIII: The early bird gets the worm. The early worm....gets eaten.

If in doubt , SHOOT !
Jovian Death
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#177 - 2016-05-18 08:58:43 UTC
OOOO Cheese Gromit
ISD Buldath
#178 - 2016-05-18 09:09:40 UTC
Quote:
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Discussion of real life religion and politics is strictly prohibited on the EVE Online forums. Discussions of this nature often creates animosity between forum users due to real life political or military conflicts. CCP promotes the growth of a gaming community where equality is at the forefront. Nationalist, religious or political affiliations are not part of EVE Online, and should not be part of discussion on the EVE Online forums.


I have removed the offending posts, and those quoting it.

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Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#179 - 2016-05-18 09:12:12 UTC
" **** station games " - Sun Tzu

Murderers of Negotiable Motivations

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Brown Pathfinder
Black Spot on Parchment
#180 - 2016-05-19 08:20:28 UTC
"The last time I gave an interview they told me to just relax and say what I really felt. Ten minutes after the broadcast I got transferred to an outpost so far off the starmaps you couldn't find it with a hunting dog and an ouiji board."
"Don't sweat it. Just be that charming, effervescent commander we've all come to know and love. What's the worst that could happen? They fire you, ship you off to the Rim and I get promoted to Commander. I don't see a problem here."
Sinclair and Garibaldi, Infection

"Ambassador, it is not my place to speculate on how anything gets in your bed."
Aide Na'Toth to G'Kar,The Parliament of Dreams

"Mr. Garibaldi, there're days I'm very glad I don't have to think the way you do."
Ivanova, And the Sky Full of Stars

"Ambassador Kosh has been a busy boy today."
"They say God works in mysterious ways."
"Maybe so, but He's a con man compared to the Vorlon."
Security Chief Michael Garibaldi and Sinclair, Deathwalker

The Babylon 5 mantra:
"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out. Babylon Control out. [Sigh] Civilians. [Looking up] Just kidding about the God part -- no offense."
Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, Voice in the Wilderness Part I

"I know, I know. It's a Russian thing. When we're about to do something stupid, we like to catalog the full extent of our stupidity for future reference."
Ivanova, A Voice in the Wilderness, Part II

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of "Spiritus Mundi"
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indigent desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
G'Kar to Na'Toth, Revelations
Quoted sections are shown in italics. The poem is The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats.

"Weep for the future, Na'toth. Weep for us all."
"Are you all right?"
"I have looked into the darkness, Na'toth. You can not do that and never be quite the same again. When you told me about the destruction of our base at quadrant 37, I knew that only a major power could attempt an assault of that magnitude. But none of the governments here could've done it. Which left only two possibilities: a new race, or an old race. A very old race."
G'kar to Na'toth, Revelations

"This is Ambassador Delenn of the Minbari. Babylon 5 is under our protection. Withdraw, .. or be destroyed."
"Negative. We have authority here. Do not force us to engage your ship."
"Why not? Only one human captain has ever survived battle with Minbari fleet. He is behind me. You are in front of me. If you value your lives, be somewhere else."
Delenn and Captain Drake, Severed Dreams