Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2021-06-01 Jun 1, 2021The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist!~ Charles BaudelaireMan is deeply vulnerable when faced with overwhelming evil. Instead of consolidating his energy to fight it, he wastes valuable time and effort puzzling over it, insisting it is not, cannot possibly be, what it seems.~ Konnilyn G. FeigMany people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety.~ Louis Kronenberger May 31, 2021For those looking for security, be forewarned that there's nothing more insecure than a political promise.~ Harry BrowneThe sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.~ James MadisonThe study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false.~ Paul Bede Johnson May 28, 2021Can we truly expect those who aim to exploit us to be trusted to educate us?~ Eric SchaubWhere once a tyrant had to wish that his subjects had but one common neck that he might strangle them all at once, all he has to do now is to 'educate the people' so that they will have but one common mind to delude.~ Richard MitchellThose who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.~ Voltaire May 27, 2021The battle for the world is the battle for definitions.~ Thomas SzaszAn important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public.~ Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-PérigordPolitical language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.~ George Orwell May 26, 2021One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world's wealth by climate policy.~ Ottmar EdenhoferWe can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than caretakers of a bankrupt international machine which will have to be transformed slowly into a new one. The transition will not be dramatic, but a gradual one. People will still cling to national symbols.~ Henry Morgenthau, Jr.We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.~ James Paul Warburg Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print