"Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression."

-- Otto von Bismarck

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“The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thirty thousand natives died of hunger, some mothers even killing their own children and eating them.”
“What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.”
“Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.”
“Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.”
“If you are going to use military force, then you ought to use overwhelming military force. Use too much and deliberately use too much; you'll save lives, not only your own, but the enemy's too.”
“Asquith, when drunk, can make a better speech than any of us when sober.”
“There are different kinds of passages in the movie [Chicken with plums]. One of the passages is like a sitcom and another is a bit more delicate and another is more bizarre, so you have to have people who know how to navigate that.”
“The questions of philosophy proper are human desires and fears and aspirations - human emotions - taking an intellectual form.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.50, A&C Black

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