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Businessmen driven by lust for money, zealots driven by lust for power, and politicians driven by, well, all three medieval lusts, have, over the intervening centuries, proven fully capable of self-destruction— quite contrary to Enlightenment suppositions.
Philip Auerswald • The Coming Prosperity: How Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Global Economy
Changing the interpretation of the past is critical to controlling the future.
Benjamin Life • Tweet
Every community is exposed to two opposite dangers: ossification through too much discipline and reverence for tradition, on the one hand; on the other hand, dissolution, or subjection to foreign conquest, through the growth of an individualism and personal independence that makes co-operation impossible. In general, important civilizations start w
... See moreBertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy
"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists." --Hannah Arendt