More from Robert E. Lee
It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.
Comment to James Longstreet, on seeing a Union charge repelled in the Battle of Fredericksburg (13 December 1862)I cannot consent to place in the control of others one who cannot control himself.
Comment regarding officers who became inebriated, as quoted in Personal Reminiscences, Anecdotes, and Letters of Gen. Robert E. Lee (1874) by John William Jones, p. 170- Advice to a Confederate widow who expressed animosity towards the northern U.S. after the end of the American Civil War, as quoted in The Life and Campaigns of General Lee (1875) by Edward Lee Childe, p. 331
More about power
What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2- Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97