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«The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended»
«Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.»
Author: Hermann Goering
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Politics,
War
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«There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.»
Author: Lord Acton
(Editor, Professor, Thinker)
| Keywords:
attacked, contrary, discussion, in front, narrow-mindedness, narrow, shaken
«One's condition on marijuana is always existential. One can feel the importance of each moment and how it is changing one. One feels one's being, one becomes aware of the enormous apparatus of nothingness -- the hum of a hi-fi set, the emptiness of a pointless interruption, one becomes aware of the war between each of us, how the nothingness in each of us seeks to attack the being of others, how our being in turn is attacked by the nothingness in others.»
Author: Norman Mailer
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«We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.»
Author: Andy Rooney
(Correspondent, Journalist, Producer, Writer)
| Keywords:
attacked, The United Nations, United Nations
«When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
ago, attacked, Attack of, conquered, ideas, long, long ago, My ideas, tired, tire out, tiring, under attack, with longing
«Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die.»
«When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books, They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.»
«They that are on their guard and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked than the supine, secure and negligent»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
| Keywords:
adversaries, attacked, negligent, supine
«Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species / it is the tigress and lioness in you / which tends to defend when attacked.»
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