"Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim." ― Elias Canetti Topic(s): War More From Elias Canetti "All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams." "Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf." "Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food." More In War "One may know how to gain a victory, and know not how to use it."― Pedro Calderon de la Barca "This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room."― Virginia Woolf "It’s the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing."― Ruth Handler