"The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty"

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Source : Simon Bolivar's statement (1829) as quoted in John Gerassi "The Great Fear: The Reconquest of Latin America by Latin Americans", 1963.

Simon Bolivar

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“I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.”
“Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.”
“The cooperation of the two retina in one field of vision, whatever is its cause, must rather be the source of all the ideas to which single or double vision may give rise.”
“For one thing, before the 20th century, there were plenty of genocides. We tend to forget about them, partly because they weren't as well documented and partly because, until recently, people didn't care. We used euphemisms like 'sackings' and 'sieges' instead of calling them 'genocides.'”
“I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.”
“Stability is not immobility.”
“I often feel that worse than the most fiendish Nazis were those Germans who went along with the persecution of the Jews not because they really disliked them but because it was the thing.”

Source : "Christopher Isherwood, The Art of Fiction No. 49". Interview with W.I. Scobie, www.theparisreview.org. Spring 1974.
“We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.”

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