A Quote by Erich von Manstein

Prussian Field Marshals do not mutiny.

Erich von Manstein

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Field Mutiny

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Erich von Manstein
German - Military man
November 24, 1887 - June 9, 1973

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

A. A. Gill

The big bankers of the world, who practise the terrorism of money, are more powerful than kings and field marshals, even more than the Pope of Rome himself. They never dirty their hands. They kill no-one: they limit themselves to applauding the show.

Eduardo Galeano

The idea of freedom can never be disassociated from real Prussia. The real Prussian spirit means a synthesis between restraint and freedom, between voluntary subordination and conscientious leadership, between pride in oneself and consideration for others, between rigor and compassion. Unless a balance is kept between these qualities, the Prussian spirit is in danger of degenerating into soulless routine and narrow-minded dogmatism.

Henning von Tresckow

The complete novelist would come into the world with a catalog of qualities like this. He would own the concentration of a Trappist monk, the organizational ability of a Prussian field marshal, the insight into human relations of a Viennese psychologist, the discipline of a man who prints the Lord's Prayer on the head of a pin, the exquisite sense of timing of an Olympic gymnast, and by the way, a natural instinct and flair for exceptional use of language.

Leon Uris

To revolt within society in order to make it a little better, to bring about certain reforms, is like the revolt of prisoners to improve their life within the prison walls; and such revolt is no revolt at all, it is just mutiny. Do you see the difference? Revolt within society is like the mutiny of prisoners who want better food, better treatment within the prison; but revolt born of understanding is an individual breaking away from society, and that is creative revolution.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

I'm holding a media mutiny.

Bart Scott

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

Laurell K. Hamilton

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

Frederick C. Beiser

Sin is blatant mutiny against God.

Oswald Chambers

Think of your life as a field. The field is the field of action. What a mystic does is set up their life as a field of power.

Frederick Lenz

In terms of the spaceship Earth, the wrong crew is in command, and it’s time for a mutiny.

Jose Arguelles

Make it plain that you have no time for war, that you have more important things to do....let the diplomats and marshals of the earth shoot each other.

Wilhelm Reich

But who knows what good might come from the least of us? From the bones of old horses is made the most beautiful Prussian Blue.

Joy Williams

Independent thinking is not encouraged in a professional Army. It is a form of mutiny. Obedience is the supreme virtue.

David Lloyd George

As the head of security for an airline, I can't ask my passengers to risk their lives and jump on a terrorist. This is why we need air marshals on every flight.