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- Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore…
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct…
- Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one…
- Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion…
- Degas was obsessed by the art of classical ballet, because to him it said something about the human condition. He was not a balletomane looking…
- A boycott is directed against a policy and the institutions which support that policy either actively or tacitly. Its aim is not to reject, but…
- Globalisation means many things. At one level, it talks of trade, which since the 16th century has exchanged goods and now, increasingly, ideas and information…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
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- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle