"Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure."

-- Anthony de Jasay

#Focus Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“As for me, even though I have been accused of anti-Semitism countless times, no one has ever heard me make anti-Semitic statements or engage in anti-Semitic behavior.”

Source : "The veil? It protects us from ugly women" by Adar Primor, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2002.
“Remember, people only rain on your parade because they're jealous of your sun and tired of their shade.”
“Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.”
“This brief century of ours is arguably the most significant one in the history of our universe. We'll have the technology either to self-destruct, or [to] seed our cosmos with life. The situation is so unstable that I doubt we can dwell at this fork in the road for more than another hundred years. But if we end up going the life route instead of the death route, then in a distant future our cosmos will be teaming with life, all of which can be traced back to what we do-here and now. I don't know how we'll be thought of, but I'm sure that we won't be remembered as insignificant.”
“I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.”

Source : Julien Green (1964). “Diary, 1928-1957”, London, Collins
“If God always met our expectations, He'd never be able to exceed them.”
“The question is, when so many others cut corners, shave the truth, self-deal, believe in the fast buck, and follow the crowd along the low road of least resistance, can we even afford to travel the high road of ethical behavior? Frankly, we can't afford anything else. Any other competitive angle is a pure crapshoot in today's business world. Companies with shaky ethics and shabby standards will be crippled as they try to compete in our changing world.”
“A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.”

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