If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
David LivingstoneTerrorism is a word with little content - it is a label for brutalities committed by โthe enemyโ, and from which oneโs own acts of destruction are exempted. It is an inchoate and emotionally laden concept, a semantic mirror of our dishonesty and a repository for everything about war that we would like to disavow. Making a sharp distinction between war and terrorism is at best a self-deceptive game.
David LivingstoneThe mere animal pleasure of travelling in a wild unexplored country is also great. The effect of travel on a man whose heart is in the right place is that the mind is made more self-reliant: it becomes more confident of its own resources, there is greater presence of mind.
David Livingstone