„You have never expressed any decided political opinions, and indeed I do not know if or how far you assent to the proposition that almost unlimited sacrifices of individual life and happiness are worth while to preserve the unique structure of power of which the keystone (the only conceivable and indispensable keystone) is the English Crown. I for my part find it the nearest thing in the world to an absolute (as opposed to a relative) value: it is like the outer circle that bound my universe, so that I cannot conceive anything beyond it.“

Letter to his parents (9 March 1943), from Simon Heffer, Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell (Phoenix, 1999), p. 75.
1940s

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Enoch Powell

britischer Politiker 1912 - 1998

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Quelle: Short Fiction, Bone Eaters (2015), p. 230

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— Johann Gottlieb Fichte, buch Die Bestimmung des Menschen

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Quelle: Everlasting

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— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955

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