„The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities.“
— Jimmy Wales, Context: Most people understand the need for neutrality. The real struggle is not between the right and the left — that's where most people assume — but it's between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks. And no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on either of those qualities. "How a ragtag band created Wikipedia" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/37 - TED Talk (July 2005); this has sometimes appeared paraphrased as "The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks."
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„The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.“
— Corneliu Zelea Codreanu Romanian politician 1899 - 1938
„The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i. e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i. e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.“
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
Part 3, Ch. 13, § 3.
„I love borders. August is the border between summer and autumn; it is the most beautiful month I know.
Twilight is the border between day and night, and the shore is the border between sea and land. The border is longing: when both have fallen in love but still haven't said anything. The border is to be on the way. It is the way that is the most important thing.“
— Tove Jansson Finnish children's writer and illustrator 1914 - 2001
„Recently somebody asked me if I’m still in touch with my feminine side. They ask me why did I do the Lux ad and things like that. I think there is a feminine side to me, as people like to assume.“
— Shahrukh Khan Indian actor, producer and television personality 1965
„This transformation of competition into monopoly is one of the most important—if not the most important—phenomena of modern capitalist economy“
— Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism: Full Text of 1916 Edition
„The party is Hitler, Hitler is Germany, and Germany is Hitler! Sieg heil!“
— Rudolf Hess German Nazi leader 1894 - 1987
At Nuremberg, 1934
„Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse“
— Joseph Brodsky Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate 1940 - 1996
„The good fighter does 'what has to be done' and does not let himself be troubled by any scepticism. [... ] Given the ineptitude of the existing political groups, which, as is well known, have often forced qualified elements to move away from them, and given that what would have been desirable did not occur, which is to say, a political party as a mere force of manoeuvre in the present time, but absolutely disciplined and controlled by a superordinated group, owner of a precise inner doctrine not to be paraded in the common political struggle—given these things, the only possibilities seem to me to be those of more diffuse activity : to win, and influence with direct contacts, personalities, if possible, holding a post of command, not so much in the world of the political schemers as in that of the army, of officialdom and of business.“
— Julius Evola Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898 - 1974
"Interview with Julius Evola" http://thompkins_cariou.tripod.com/id20.html
„Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces that look like sheer insanity, if judged by the standards of other centuries. It is as though mankind had divided itself between those who believe in human omnipotence (who think that everything is possible if one knows how to organize masses for it) and those for whom powerlessness has become the major experience of their lives.“
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
„America has become one of the foremost countries in regard to the depth of the abyss which lies between the handful of arrogant multimillionaires who wallow in filth and luxury, and the millions of working people who constantly live on the verge of pauperism.“
— Vladimir Lenin, A Letter to American Workingmen: From the Socialist Soviet Republic of Russia
Collected Works, Vol. 28, p. 62–75.
„The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or good.“
— Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind
The Life of the Mind (1978), "Thinking".
„The music is not in the notes,
but in the silence between.“
— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Austrian Romantic composer 1756 - 1791