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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by emizeko@hexbear.net to c/copypasta@hexbear.net

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gonna be posting a bunch of quotes in this thread that I want to preserve. you are welcome to post critiques of a given pasta, just remember I don't 100% agree with all of these (only most) but consider them information worth saving. proposed edits will be considered

CONTENT WARNING: there's going to be mentions of imperial atrocities in here, including SA and torture.

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[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. People necessarily wield military and economic power.

—Mao Zedong, On Protracted War (May 1958), Selected Works, Vol. II, pp. 143-44.