Saturday, 11 August 2012

They like command better than power

military men are the opposite of you, general, they're men of quick and easy ambition, they like command better than power and they're not in the service of something but of someone, and that's why it's so easy to make use of them, he said, especially one against the other,

G. Garcia Marquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch (1975), 160