
“Confio nos meus dentes, e esses mesmo me mordem a língua.”
O Cortiço (1890)
“Confio nos meus dentes, e esses mesmo me mordem a língua.”
O Cortiço (1890)
“A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.”
Sleepwalking Land
Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. Religion is much more necessary in the republics which they set forth in glowing colors, than in the morarchy which they attack; and it is more needed in democratic republics than in any others. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Divinity?
Democracy in America - página 288 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=DUAvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA288, Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve, Edição 2, G. Adlard, 1838, 464 páginas
Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The Churchill wit - página 5, Sir Winston Churchill, Bill Adler, Editora Coward-McCann, 1965, 85 páginas
“A guerra nada mais é que a continuação da política por outros meios.”
Der Krieg ist eine bloße Fortsetzung der Politik mit anderen Mitteln.
Leben des generals Carl von Clausewitz und der Frau Marie von Clausewitz geb. gräfin von Brühl: Volumes 1-2 - página 494, Karl Schwartz - F. Dümmler, 1878