“We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun.”
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Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
