"They feed the crocodile in the hope..." - Quote by Winston Churchill
They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
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“Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.”
“I like a man who grins when he fights.”
“Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions.”
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“Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.”
“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.”
“The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.”
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“He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?”
“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state”
“Those who think themselves secure are more exposed to danger than any others. The armor-bearer of sin is self-confidence .”