Die Gedanken sind frei…

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

Battles are decided less by the sword than by the mind. Extremist, fundamentalist Muslims want to force everyone into the House of Islam; with fire and sword if necessary. A right step in the fight against this threat is to drive the fluff out of the pinkies' brains. Spiritual leaders have instilled this view, through morally and rhetorically valuable argument, in these people who are endowed with reason and shaped by experience.

Media, leaflets and word of mouth must spread the counter-message. Or, as Winston Churchill said: Ill people. Pff! Some are curable, others are killable.

The war is won not by slaying the enemy, but by convincing him.

Taliban = student, pupil. Fine, let's give them something to learn.

Sound thinking is the greatest perfection, and wisdom consists in speaking the truth and acting according to nature, listening to it.
Heraclitus

It is not enough to prove something; one must also seduce people to it.
Friedrich Nietzsche

He who demands that the cards be laid on the table usually holds all the trumps.
Graham Greene

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