It's not about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.
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 a war, is much worse.
The most dangerous phrase in technology is 'we've always done it this way'.
The total speech act comprises both the act of uttering words and the act of meaning.