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"The king has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time."

"The source of every Crime, is some defect of the Understanding; or some error in Reasoning; or some sudden force of the Passions."

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🇺🇸Christopher Hitchens

Philosophy

atheism

1949–2011

"Peace through Strength," surely history's most exploded nostrum."

"Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom."

"German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such. P. 16"

"The supreme test of the nation has come. We must all speak, act, and serve together!"

"Philosopher Nozick dies at 63 From the Harvard Gazette"

"If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress."

"I am certain that I speak on behalf of my entire nation when I say: Today we are all Americans — in grief, as in defiance."

"I feel awed by the mystery of being both so finite and yet so infinite, so much and so little, so conscious and yet, so coincidental."

"Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness."

"Did Romeo and Juliet have a … “relationship”? The term “relationship” … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment."

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🇺🇸Brian Reynolds Myers

Education

b. 1963

"The average Korean alive in 1945 was to a far greater degree the product of Japanese rule than the Choson Dynasty."

"Under the flag of 'superior Turkey identity' the entire society was sworn to an aggressive nationalism."

"The real struggle is in fact not for but against the minds of men. Persuasion as a form of coercion represents an assault on consciousness and intentionality."

"You can't appeal to us through our wombs, we're pro-life. The fetus beat us. We grew up with sonograms. We know life when we see it."

"Racism originated not in ignorance and fear but as part of an enlightened enterprise of intellectual discovery."

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

"Philosophers are adults who persist in asking childish questions."

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🇺🇸Mary Parker Follett

Philosophy

1868–1933

"Man can have no rights apart from society or independent of society or against society."

"I do not take my mandate from the European people."

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

"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."

"The ultimate expression of sovereignty resides, to a large degree, in the power and the capacity to dictate who may live and who must die."

🇬🇷Alexandre Christoyannopoulos

"Center for Cooperative Research profile of Stephen Hadley"

"the Chinese see the vulnerability of Taiwan, not getting United States support, then they would be thinking about starting scenarios where they would be able to take Taiwan over."

"Obstruction of mobility, where it occurs, is one of the most serious and intractable problems of industrial society."

"Soviet colonialism sabotaged the foundations of a modern, liberal national state in Georgia."

"No matter how much Zionism continues to resurrect it and claim it as the excuse for its racist violence against the Palestinians, the holocaust does not justify Israel's racist nature."

"Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms."

"No organization works if the toilets don't work, but I don't believe that finding solutions to business problems is my job."

"With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford."

"Canada is a country that works better in practice than in theory."

"Sackhere is a model, what kind of Georgia we want"

"It's all of the good that won't come out of us and how eventually our hands will just turn to dust, if we keep shaking them standing here on this frozen lake."

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