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Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which read more
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].
The US has a vital interest in that area of the country [Latin America].
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from read more
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from
ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,and
undernourishment.
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the read more
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the read more
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and unreasonable by simple nature. We must learn to be free, to organize the random and detect the reflexive, to acquire the knowledge of particulars and the powers of reason. The examined life is impossible if we cannot examine, order, classify, define, distinguish, always in minute particulars.
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.
