"Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power."

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Source : Hans Joachim Morgenthau, Kenneth W. Thompson (1977). “A Tribute to Hans Morgenthau: truth and tragedy : with an intellectual autobiography by Hans J. Morgenthau”, New Republic Books

Hans Morgenthau

#Yield Quotes #Argument Quotes #Position Quotes

“I do have high expectations, like anyone does. I expect myself to do well. It comes with all of the work I've put in and what I expect from that work.”
“People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.”

Source : "Ted 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.
“We blame Walt Disney for goldenrod's undeserved bad name. Despite Sneezy's pronouncement, plants such as goldenrod with heavy, insect-carried pollen rarely cause allergic reaction.”
“A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.”

Source : Gayl Jones (2016). “The Healing”, p.30, Beacon Press
“The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.”
“As a student at the time, I kind of felt like my only options as a nonfiction writer were to either jump on the personal essay bus or linger back at the station, hoping that some other heretofore unknown mode of transportation was going to magically show up to take me where I wanted to go.”
“I used to not be really honest with girls and then I dropped a song called Starry Room and then I started turning over a new leaf.”
“Proclaiming a sexual preference is something that straight men never really have to bother with.”

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