#moral commitment

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behind another tumblr user on the public bus. I Have To Say The Line

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In Belinsky's view, "The truth alone was beautiful and it was always beautiful, it could never be hideous or destructive or bleak or trivial, and it did not live in the outer appearance. It lay 'beneath' (as Schelling, Plato, Hegel taught) and was revealed only to those who cared for the truth alone, and was therefore not for the neutral, the detached, the cautious, but for the morally committed, for those who were prepared to sacrifice all they had in order to discover and vindicate the truth, and liberate themselves and others from the illusions, conventions and self-deceptions which blinded men about the world and their duty in it. This was the creed of the Russian intelligentsia."

'A Remarkable Decade', in Russian Thinkers, by Isaiah Berlin

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Moral Spirit...

Moral Spirit…

“’The spirit of an army lives in its officers,’ wrote Ruchel; for the moral of the rank and file is the moral of its leaders.”

J.F.C. Fuller (1878 to 1966), Training Soldiers for War, 1914

Major General John Frederick Charles ‘Boney’ Fuller, CB, CBE, DSO was a senior British Army officer, military historian, and strategist. Notable as an early theorist of modern armoured warfare, including…

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Moral Effect...

Moral Effect…

“The moral effect of result upon troops must never be overlooked”

Major General J.M. Schofield (1831 to 1906), United States Army, from the Inaugural Address to Journal of the Military Service Institute of the United States, 11 January 1879.

John McAllister Schofield was a US Army officer who held major commands during the American Civil War. He later served as US Secretary of War under…

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The Ugliest Thing of Things… “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling that thinks nothing is worth war is much worse.

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Moral Qualities… “The most solid moral qualities melt away under the effect of modern arms.” Unknown

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Moral & Physical… “The moral is to the physical as three to one.” Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 to 121) Also known as Napoleon I, the Corsican or the Little Corporal, he was a French general, first consul of France (1799-1804), and emperor of the French (1804-1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West.

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The Exertions of Better Men… “War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.