Posted by: Federico
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Politics)
Wanting to correct the world is a folly second to none.
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Wanting to correct the world is a folly second to none.
Democracy means the chance of being everyone's slave.
Politics are not my concern... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed, the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist.
Authority is quite degrading.
You know how much I admire Che Guevara. In fact, I believe that the man was not only an intellectual but also the most complete human being of our age: as a fighter and as a man, as a theoretician who was able to further the cause of revolution by drawing his theories from his personal experience in battle.
President Bush's approval rating is now down under 50 percent. So now what he's going to have to do is let Saddam go so we can capture him again.
Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.
Do not hit what you can avoid in a dignified way, but if you hit, hit hard.
When bad men combine, the good ... else they will fall, one by one, unpitied victims in a contemptible struggle.