Only the soldier is a free ...

Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
Only the soldier is a free man, because he can look death in the face.
 Friedrich Schiller

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

Quotes from the same author

Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.
 Friedrich Schiller
Satisfied if they themselves can escape from the hard labour of thought, they willingly abandon to others the guardianship of their thoughts.
 Friedrich Schiller
Art is the daughter of freedom.
 Friedrich Schiller
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
 Friedrich Schiller
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
 Friedrich Schiller