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En Italie, en trente ans sous les Borgia,
ils ont la guerre, la terreur, les meurtres,
mais ils ont produit Michel-Ange, Léonard de Vinci et la Renaissance.
En Suisse, ils ont eu l'amour fraternel, cinq cent ans de démocratie et de paix. Et qu'ont-ils produit ? l'horloge qui fait coucou !
(Graham Greene, Le troisième homme)
ils ont la guerre, la terreur, les meurtres,
mais ils ont produit Michel-Ange, Léonard de Vinci et la Renaissance.
En Suisse, ils ont eu l'amour fraternel, cinq cent ans de démocratie et de paix. Et qu'ont-ils produit ? l'horloge qui fait coucou !
(Graham Greene, Le troisième homme)
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12.3.17
Général von Choltitz: You certainly are a fine talker. Abraham... a Jew. It's an interesting analogy. I no longer believe in God, but I remember the Bible well. In fact, you're asking me to betray the oath I took to serve my country. You're asking me to betray my whole upbringing. My father was a soldier. My grandfather was also a soldier. My ancestors fought Napoleon in his Russian campaign. And I have been in two wars.
Raoul Nordling: [opening his mouth to speak]
Général von Choltitz: No, no, no, no, listen to me. Let me finish. I saw everything thing in those wars. The intoxicating victory and the humiliation of defeat. I, too, want this one to end - the sooner the better. But I will never capitulate.
Raoul Nordling: If Hitler told you to kill your little boy, you wouldn't hesitate? Like Abraham, 4,000 years ago?
(Diplomacy movie)
Raoul Nordling: You'd rather not look reality in the eye?
Général von Choltitz: Whose reality, yours or mine?
Raoul Nordling: The reality that destroying Paris is absurd.
Général von Choltitz: Yours then.
Raoul Nordling: Not mine alone. The world is watching you. In the end, you, General Dietrich von Choltitz, will be held responsible. And for what? To delay the Allied attack on Germany for a few weeks? It makes no sense. I understand that you have orders and must obey them. But surely, at some point obedience ceases to be a duty. In your whole career, have you never had a doubt or even a hesitation over the legality of an order?
Général von Choltitz: Even if that were the case, I have no right to incite uncertainty among my men through my own insubordination. A general at the front must be a model for his troops.
(In Diplomacy movie)
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6.3.17
Code moral
La politesse : c'est le respect d'autrui.
La sincérité : c'est de s'exprimer sans déguiser sa pensée
L'honneur : c'est d'être fidèle à la parole donnée
La modestie : c'est de parler de soi-même sans orgueil
Le respect : sans respect, aucune confiance ne peut naître.
Le contrôle de soi : c'est de savoir se taire lorsque monte la colère.
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