Soldier

Miguel de Cervantes

Literature

Mannerism

1547–1616

"A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause."

Guy Fawkes

1570–1606

"What If the Gunpowder Plot Had Succeeded?"

🇺🇸Jeffrey Dahmer

1960–1994

"I had these obsessive desires and thoughts wanting to control them , to–I don't know how to put it–possess them permanently."

🇺🇸Kirk Douglas

Entertainment

1916–2020

"I love champions. A champion has something special about him."

🇺🇸Robert Mueller

Law

b. 1944

"You really don't think about it as you go through it; you just try to do the right thing at the right time."

🇬🇧John Mitchel

Journalism

1815–1875

"Czar, I bless thee. I kiss the hem of thy garment. I drink to thy health and longevity. Give us war in our time, O Lord!"

🇪🇸Ignatius of Loyola

Religion

1491–1556

"Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison."

🇷🇺Andrei Grechko

Politics

1903–1976

"The Communist Party and the Soviet Government display constant concern to strengthen the country's defensive might and raise the combat readiness of the Armed Forces."

🇯🇵Yoshijirō Umezu

Military

1882–1949

"Germ warfare against the United States would escalate to war against all humanity."

🇺🇸John Stapp

Medicine

1910–1999

"The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."

"Verily, the soul is content when that which it desires is learned, and becomes importunate in its pursuit when it is spurned."

🇺🇸Frederick Russell Burnham

Literature

1861–1947

"As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood."

🇬🇧Valentine Blacker

Military

1778–1826

"Blacker, with the exception of Col Everest, was the ablest and most scientific man that ever presided over this expensive department"

🇵🇱Witold Pilecki

Military

1901–1948

"During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people were killed. Over the next 2 years, 3 Million."

Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

Military

naturism

1848–1916

"The moment Russia mobilizes, Germany also will mobilize, and will unquestionably mobilize her whole army."

🇺🇸Stan Lee

Business

1922–2018

"“You know, I guess one person can make a difference. 'Nuff said...” - Dialogue from Spider-Man 3"

🇩🇪Paul von Hindenburg

Politics

1847–1934

"Interview of 1929, as quoted in "Nations are greatly concerned over death of German President" in Berkeley Daily Gazette"

Ratko Mladić

Military

b. 1943

"We, as the winners , created a common country with our enemies , who were on the defeated side ."

🇬🇧B. H. Liddell Hart

Military

1895–1970

"If you want no war, you need to know what war is."

🇪🇸Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran)

Military

1910–1995

"There’s already about 10,000 people on the docks, screamin’ and hollerin’, and carrying swastikas, “Free Ernst Thälmann”, “Down with Hitlerism”, and such and such and such. The demonstration’s already really in progress."

🇺🇸William March

Literature

1893–1954

"...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided."

🇦🇷José de San Martín

Politics

1778–1850

"Mercedes … this is the exhaustion of death. Mariano — back to my room."

🇩🇪Hermann Adler

Religion

1890–1967

"Among Jews, there is an absence of drunkenness, always a fruitful source of domestic strife and misconduct."

🇩🇪Franz Halder

Music

1884–1972

"Bad weather has grounded the Luftwaffe and now we must stand by and watch countless thousands of the enemy getting away to England under our noses."

🇺🇸Charles Francis Adams

Literature

1835–1915

"It would be superfluous in me to point out to your Lordship that this is war."

"joy's a subtle elf, I think man's happiest when he forgets himself."

🇺🇸Joyce Kilmer

Literature

1886–1918

"Tribute Page at the University of Notre Dame"

🇺🇸David Rockefeller

Business

1915–2017

"Born to be Mild. a review of Memoirs in The New York Times"

🇩🇪Rudolf Höss

Military

1900–1947

"We cut the hair from women after they had been exterminated in the gas chambers. The hair was then sent to factories, when it was woven into special fittings for gaskets."

🇩🇪Gerd von Rundstedt

Military

1875–1953

"It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat that this order be rescinded or that you find someone else."

🇹🇷Hulusi Akar

Politics

b. 1952

"Turkey's goal is to contribute to the formation of a Libya that has ensured its territorial integrity and political unity, and lives in peace, tranquility and stability,"

🇺🇸Arthur Guy Empey

Literature

1883–1963

"My motto for the Yellows is "S.O.S.-Ship or Shoot"

🇺🇸Tadeusz Kościuszko

Politics

1746–1817

"And Freedom shrieked - as Kosciuszko fell!"

🇪🇸Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Literature

Mannerism

1547–1616

"Demasiada cordura puede ser la peor de las locuras, ver la vida como es y no como debería de ser.Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."