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- Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factorites, whose lives are…
- The historian's distortion is more than technical, it is ideological; it is released into a world of contending interest, where any chosen emphasis supports some…
- Memorial Day will be celebrated ... by the usual betrayal of the dead, by the hypocritical patriotism of the politicians and contractors preparing for more…
- When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.
- [...] There is none that disperses its control more complexly through the voting system, the work situation, the church, the family, the school, the mass…
- Control in modern times requires more than force, more than law. It requires that a population dangerously concentrated in cities and factories, whose lives are…
- History can come in handy. If you were born yesterday, with no knowledge of the past, you might easily accept whatever the government tells you.…
- Human beings, whatever their backgrounds, are more open than we think, that their behavior cannot be confidently predicted from their past, that we are all…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle