Councils Quotes

• I began to understand the fundamental problem of the councils, who were required to collaborate with Germans. They had no choice - no choice at all. The role of 'collaborator' is completely false to describe them and define their attitude.

  

  Claude Lanzmann
  • Problem
  • Germans
  • Collaborate

• Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils.

  

  Tacitus
  • Power
  • Cautious
  • Councils

• As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey.

  

  George Eliot
  • Light
  • Battle
  • Command