Norman Mailer Quote

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above you, and contemptuous of your subordinates.


Gen. Edward Cummings, in Pt. 1, Ch. 6 - The Naked and the Dead (1948)


To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above...

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above...

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above...

To make an Army work you have to have every man in it fitted into a fear ladder... The Army functions best when you're frightened of the man above...