William Alexander famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports of weapons, even tanks, being kept from the front and hidden for treacherous purposes.
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published everyday, like those of a baseball player.
-- William Alexander
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The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
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There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.
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There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.
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Republics come to an end by luxurious habits; monarchies by poverty.
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...when the laws have ceased to be executed, as this can only come from the corruption of the republic, the state is already lost.
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When the people find that they can vote themselves money that will herald the end of the republic.
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And humor has always been a weapon. You want to get even on somebody? You want to attack somebody? Make fun of them.
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The national security state has many unfair and cruel weapons in its arsenal, but that of junk science is one which can be fought and perhaps defeated.
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The paradox is now fully established that the utmost abstractions are the true weapons with which to control our thought of concrete fact.
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The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
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