Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:50

Machiavelli was the greatest Italian philosopher ... the teacher of all teachers of politics ... but he did not have enough contempt for humanity. (Benito Mussolini)

Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:49

One can save one's soul, or one can found or maintain, or serve a great and glorious state; but not always both at once. (Isaiah Berlin)

Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:48

The only way to protect yourself from flatterers is to make it clear to people that you do not mind being told the truth. Yet when everyone can you the truth, you lose respect. (Machiavelli, The Prince)

Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:47

Wars begin when you want, but don't end when you wish. (Machiavelli, Florentine History)

Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 24 November 2007 20:46

It is necessary for anyone establishing a state and setting down its laws to presuppose that all people are evil, and that they will always act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they get the chance. (Machiavelli, Discourses)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 04 May 2007 16:20

Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade. (Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)

Posted by: Marios - Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31

Those who would make revolutions in the world, those who want to do good in this world must sleep only in the tomb. (Saint-Just)

Posted by: Marios - Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31

The conspirators who have died, think you they were the children of liberty, because for one brief moment they resembled them? (Saint-Just)

Posted by: Marios - Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:31

What constitutes a republic is the total destruction of everything that stands in opposition to it. (Saint-Just)

Posted by: Marios - Thursday, 26 April 2007 20:30

Liberty is a bitch who must be bedded on a mattress of corpses. (Saint-Just)

Posted by: Marios - Sunday, 22 April 2007 20:38

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. (H. L. Mencken, Prejudices)

Posted by: Marios - Tuesday, 17 April 2007 11:40

Sanity is statistical. (George Orwell, 1984)

Posted by: Marios - Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:34

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. (Alexander Pope, "Essay on Man", 1733)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:45

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge. (Charles Darwin, "The Descent of Man and Selection in Relati)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:34

A democratic system of education ... is one of the surest ways of creating and greatly extending markets for goods of all kinds and especially those goods in which fashion may play a part. (Ex-adman James Rorty, "Our Master's Voice", 1934)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:32

MTV is associated with the forces of freedom and democracy around the world. (Viacom CEO Sumner Redstone, owner of MTV, October 1994)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:30

In our manufacturing, administrative, and distributive facilities, we have a specific philosophy - cameras keep people honest. (Leo Myers, safety and security system engineer for Mattel)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:27

There is a Chinese saying,
"Either the East Wind prevails of the West Wind or the West Wind prevails over the East Wind." (Mao Zedong, Moscow Meeting of the Communist Party, November 18,)

Posted by: Marios - Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument. (Shakespeare: Love's Labour Lost)

Posted by: Dar - Tuesday, 14 February 2006 17:20

Every man who wages war believes God is on his side, I'll warrant God should often wonder who is on His. (Oliver Cromwell)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 30 December 2005 00:28

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. (John Stuart Mill)

Posted by: Dar - Tuesday, 27 December 2005 13:21

The object of war is not to die for one's country, but to make the other bastard die for his. (General George S. Patton)

Posted by: Dar - Monday, 19 December 2005 17:39

One Englishman, a bore; two Englishmen, a club; three Englishmen, an empire. (Anatal Parody ...)

Posted by: Dar - Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:04

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. (Lord Salisbury)

Posted by: Dar - Saturday, 12 November 2005 19:03

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. (Lord Salisbury)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:42

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. (Sir Winston Churchill)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:42

A leader is a dealer in hope. (Napolean Bonaparte)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:42

Failure has no friends. (John F. Kennedy)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:41

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. (General George Patton)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:41

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:40

In the struggle between the stone and the water, in time, the water wins. (Chinese Proverb)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:40

Envy, jealousy, anxiety, and sometimes perhaps even generosity are the natural advocates of the unsuccessful. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:40

There will always be time enough to die. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:39

The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:39

In the art of war, the word 'dominate' has a charm all its own. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:39

Tools are there to be used, and use will naturally wear them out. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:38

Battle is the bloodiest solution ... the character of battle ... is slaughter, and its price is blood. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:37

All war presupposes human weakness, and seeks to exploit it. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:37

Woe to the government, which, relying on half-hearted politics and a shackled military policy, meets a foe who, like the untamed elements, knows no law other than his own power! (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:37

If the opponent does seek battle, this recourse can never be denied him. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:36

If it is possible, it is necessary. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:36

War is thus an act of force to compel our enemy to do our will. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:36

The maximum use of force is in no way incompatible with the simultaneous use of the intellect. (Carl von Clausewitz)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:35

Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile. (Bertrand Russell)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:35

Give me a firm place to stand and I will move the earth. (Archimedes)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:34

Hidden talent counts for nothing. (Emperor Nero)

Posted by: Dar - Friday, 11 November 2005 14:33

Force, to counter opposing force, equips itself with the inventions of art and science. Attached to force are certain self-imposed, imperceptible limitations hardly worth mentioning, known as international law and custom. (Carl von Clausewitz)