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"Justice does not require that men must stand idly by while others destroy the basis of their existence."

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🇬🇷Plutarch

Philosophy

"Pyrrhus said, "If I should overcome the Romans in another fight, I were undone."

"We must stop spending money that we just don’t have. Historic debt leads to historic tax increases, which stifle job growth."

"History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field."

"John McCain, if you liked the last eight, you are going to love the next four."

"John Howard's credibility on the entire Iraq war has been torpedoed by John Howard's own intelligence agency."

"Mussolini insisted that Fascism was the only form of ‘socialism’ appropriate to the ‘proletarian nations’ of the twentieth century."

"Actual practices in the advanced democratic countries are, then, far too diverse and complex to be captured by ideologies."

"A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't."

"...those hostilities were not very well contained, as we found out on September 11th, and so the notion that somehow policies that finally confront extremism are actually causing extremism I find grotesque."

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🇮🇳Deendayal Upadhyaya

Politics

Humanism

1916–1968

"Politics is ultimately subservient to the interests of the nation. If we give up all thoughts of a nation’s basic identity, history, culture and traditions, of what use is that politics ?"

"Isn't conservatism in part about resisting so-called new realities when you sense they might be questionable, even as people lecture you that you’ve got to get with the times?"

"Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces."

"The different strands of radical thought seek to lift a veil from our eyes in order to emancipate us from domination, cowardice, or repression. They unmask in order to liberate."

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🇺🇸David H. Rosenbloom

"The two-person iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma is the E. coli of the social sciences, allowing a very large variety of studies to be undertaken in a common framework."

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Heinrich von Treitschke

Politics

Pan-Germanism

1834–1896

"God will see to it that war always recurs as a drastic medicine for the human race."

"Humans sometimes make surprising choices, and human history is full of uncertainties."

"Roughly speaking, rationality is concerned with the selection of preferred behavior alternatives in terms of some system of values, whereby the consequences of behavior can be evaluated."

"That said, sometimes I feel that Israel has come out of the boils of the hell, a satanic state."

"Pennsylvania, if you don't win this now, not only will you never win again — you don't deserve to win again."

🇺🇸Michael Hamilton Morgan

Literature

b. 1951

"Loss is a defending human experience. Nothing in the physical world lasts forever. Memory of what has been lost ca be both ennobling and painful."

"I think I was just being myself for a moment there...Look, I think people should be kind of light about this. It's something that plenty of people have heard in their lives for sure."

"What he has spent it on, apparently, is just hiring a bunch of staff people to wander around Utah and Mississippi and pick their nose."

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🇨🇭Alexander Osterwalder

Business

b. 1974

"Business models and value propositions expire like a yogurt in the fridge."

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🇬🇧Houston Stewart Chamberlain

Literature

1855–1927

"In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality."

"No state will ever be able to make Ukraine Ukrainian. Only self-organized Ukrainians outside state structures will be able to do it. And I am confident it will happen!"

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🇪🇬Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Politics

1922–2016

"Since the creation of the United Nations in 1945, over 100 major conflicts around the world have left some 20 million dead."

"The more progress that has been made toward eradicating social injustices, the more intolerable the remaining injustices seem, and thus the moral imperative to mobilizing to correct them."

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