Post #2164966
2025-12-05 11:37 UTC
"The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
Thucydides 5th century BCE
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@SJAsh_03@mastodon.sdf.org 2025-12-05 14:50
@DavidBridger@mastodon.social I think there is ample confirmation of this, these days.
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@contrapunctus@fe.disroot.org 2025-12-07 16:18
@DavidBridger@mastodon.social I quite like this one, thanks! Also, according to Wikiquote, this quote is… Widely attributed to Thucydides in books and online. In fact misquoted from Sir William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon (1889), p. 85, where it reads: “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”[3]