"Power is always temporary."

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“The one irreducible truth about humanity is diversity.”

“Liberty dies where there is agreement without thought or argument.”

“When the world’s run by fools it’s the duty of intelligence to disobey.”

“You have to work out how not to die tomorrow.”

“The immense beauty, the vast almost unbearable beauty of justice.”

“I realized that the only possible response was to go to my wonderful local café, Maison Bertaux, check everyone was well, eat a little cake and then make art. To me, making art, and in particular public art, is always an assertion of our humanity and our strength.”

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"If there is a single power the West underestimates, it is the power of collective hatred."

— Ralph Peters

Military1952

#power

"We might as well hope for the termination of the struggle for existence by which, some philosophers tell us, the existence or the modification of the various species of organized beings upon our plane…"

— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Politics1830–1903

#philosophy

"...as individuals and as nations we live in states of society utterly different from each other. As a collection of individuals, we live under the highest and latest development of civilization, in wh…"

— Robert Gascoyne-Cecil

Politics1830–1903

#justice

"This book must... touch... deep and difficult questions about birth and death... life and its inception... sexuality and gender, about distribution of power."

— Laurence Tribe

Education1941

#life