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Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.
Georgi Dimitrov: Whoever does not fight the reactionary measures of the bourgeoisie and the growth of fascism at these preparatory stages is not in a position to prevent the victory of fascism, but, on the contrary, facilitates that victory. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
The US military has launched over 1,000 airstrikes on Yemen since March without authorization from Congress while refusing to disclose details of injured or killed US troops
REAL ID didn’t make you safer. It made you more manageable. The next phase? Digital IDs, facial scans, social credit. And it started with a little gold star on your license. Nice and quiet.
REAL ID horror stories aren’t bugs — they’re features. You’re meant to feel powerless. You’re meant to give up and comply. You’re meant to be reminded who actually runs this place.
President Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson) shares his accomplishments for his first 100 days in office and signs new executive orders.Saturday Night Live....
“Pe Sla” has been a sacred ceremonial site for Lakota people since the dawn of time. The site is significant to multiple indigenous nations in the same sense that Jerusalem is important to people of Abrahamic faiths.
“Drilling would disrupt the sacred site, the historical site, the land of water. And it would also create problems with drilling noise, lights and traffic that would disturb people who are praying or studying in the canyon.” kotatv.com/2025/05/03/local-or…
"Trump advisers accused Mike Waltz of not "working for the president of your country," but instead "working for the president of another country"(you'll never guess which one).
Waltz angered Trump by plotting with Netanyahu to attack Iran and then kept pushing Trump to do it."
The Leader of the House of Commons dismisses the grooming-gangs scandal as a ‘dog whistle’…
Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central and Leader of the House, thinks that talking about the grooming gangs is a ‘little trumpet’ and ‘dog whistle’ youtube.com/watch?v=MftK-mvoHg…
Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central and Leader of the House, thinks that talking about the grooming gangs is a ‘little trumpet’ and ‘dog whistle’https://w...
"The Ojibways of Onigaming are a prime example of how community wellbeing, inherent and Treaty rights, and environmental stewardship intersect with development and resource extraction. While the community grapples with a crisis that has claimed many young lives, external pressures from speculative mining companies further exacerbate their struggles." nationtalk.ca/story/mining-com…
(Toronto, Ont.–May 2, 2025) The Chiefs of Ontario are deeply troubled by the serious and persistent challenges faced by many First Nations, particularly the Ojibways of Onigaming First Nation.
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I was a poor young man, I refused to pay $100 to put windows on a hard drive I had installed into a hand-me-down desktop.
I found linux and made it work, through thick and thin. As a lazy jackass i somehow got skyrim to work through wine via copied and pasted terminal commands. wintetricks and all, i found it wildly difficult. Playing was almost as thrilling as seeing it work.
I have only ever attempted to make a linux ISO bootable drive through windows that one time, more than ten years ago. My wife was given a laptop with windows 11 installed and I wanted to install firefox.
what, the actual fuck, is "S" mode?
ctrl-alt-t "install that shit"!
A computer should not come with a subscription baked in. That's trash. The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it and/or the walled gardens it hasn't found its way into yet. The issues I experienced this evening on windows were there by design.
Thank you to all of the homies that make the weird and sometimes uncomfortable linux/ open-source community work. You guys are the shit.
In windows defense (no means sticking up for them now) It was a pretty unobtrusive OS in Windows 7 and arguably in Windows 8 (but don’t get me started with the UI/UX choices). Windows 10 was decent and for the first year or two felt good running it. But after that yikes….. Then windows 11 comes to the scene and I lost the plot. Looking forward to October though when people throw out their 7th Gen Processor rigs. I got no issues rocking an I7-6700K that is not AI ready
I model all of my UI choices off of old(er) school windows. I have a bar, the menu is left. I was a pirate before anything and I learned on windows. There was a point where it made sense that the world used it, I think that time has passed. I really am such a pleb that hardware issues only effect me if it doesn't work. In this I guess I am saying that the freedom to abuse and break my hardware is important. I don't want to sell my soul or be told "no". install the program, I know it was written for windows. I don't want a microsoft account.
I love your comparison of where issues come from on Linux vs Windows. That's so apt (heh). Even after 10 years of using Linux, I never really thought of it that way.
It's frustrating when any computer doesn't do what you want; but you're right, it's infuriating when the problems are engineered to manipulate you into parting with your money, attention, or privacy.
The issues i get through linux come from my failure to understand it
I’d argue that’s true of any user’s experience with any OS, including what you just experienced with Windows.
Getting out of S mode is actually very trivial, certainly moreso than many of the changes one might be expected to make in Linux. There’s a certain type of user that “S Mode” is intended for. You’re not that user, and Linux is likely to be a negative experience for that user.
I hadn't either until last night. From what I gathered it disables the installation of any softwares that don't come from the microsoft store i.e. .EXE files for programs that were downloaded from the browser. Getting out of S mode is as easy as creating a microsoft account. I had no interest in that for a variety of reasons.
Except they use a bunch of dark patterns to discourge any user from doing it by calling it 'Developer mode' and throwing a bunch of scary sounding warning screens at you when all you're doing is disabling the forced use of the Microsoft store.
It's a super scummy move that will be very effective. Many people will just use the Microsoft store and Microsoft will, once again, have used their monopoly to manipulate the market by forcing their own product to be used (like they got in trouble for in the IE vs Netscape Navigator case)
I guess I just didn't have the patience enough to even get that far with it haha All I could think of was the Netscape thing. It was sooo obvious when i opened edge and got halfway into typing "google chrome" when a giant banner pops up and says "you don't have to install another browser! please bro! Don't do it!"
Imagine turning Windows into an even shittier version of itself, and you've got S mode.
Can't install shit unless it's from the MS Store. Can't use a browser unless it's Edge. Not sure what other stupid shit it enforces. It's supposed to harden the system, but I find that hard to believe.
Ah, like a "stable" mode? Honestly it makes sense from a user support perspective. More locked down, more predictable, easier to secure. In the same way that you can't hack a brick, and similarly useful.
Heh, I'm probably in the minority, but I like the idea of different windows "modes". I've long wanted msft to make versions of windows for different users rather than a one-size-fits-all product. I just wanted it because I'm a power user who wanted something more stripped down and configurable, not a boomer who wants something that won't act as a conduit between my ignorance and scammers.
But it's cool, they can do whatever they want with windows now, they've made it clear they don't want me as a user.
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The situation Sometimes, you want to get a very specific part of a command output. The classic problem is to get the IP address of an interface.
Father in heaven, author of all truth, a people once in darkness has listened to your Word and followed your Son as he rose from the tomb. Hear the prayer of this newborn people and strengthen your Church to answer your call. May we rise and come forth into the light of day to stand in your presence until eternity dawns. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
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May the Lord bless us, protect us from all evil, and bring us to everlasting life. Amen.
1. Replace workers with AI. 2. Now instead of wages you pay a company for AI services. 3. Despite the likely decline in quality of the work, suppose you become dependent as a company on this service. Suppose you make it work. 4. AI is heavily subsidized by venture capital, its priced lower than the cost to provide the service to attract early adopters (and to lock companies like you in.) 5. Inevitably the AI bubble bursts, AI services jack up their prices.
I can understand the urge to cut the cost of wages. Wages are the greatest expense for most companies. But, they have to know it's not gonna "get cheaper" it will get more expensive. Maybe they plan to retool their production process two times over? Seems inefficient.
People keep saying this is like buying machines to replace factory line workers, but it's not. It's renting machines to replace workers. And renting them from people who are on the verge of becoming desperate since they aren't making a profit.
I have never met a C-suite executive who could think more than a quarter ahead.
You're assuming that those executives will be around for more than a quarter, and won't have cashed out and are sipping margaritas by their Olympic-sized pool.
And these are all companies who are fighting unions because they don't want anyone to have any kind of power over them. Just wait until their Do Stuff bill doubles overnight.
someone needs to show me the math for like replacing checkout counter workers earning $20-25/hr including benefits versus installing millions of dollars in specialized equipment plus the compute for these AI auto checkouts - not even including model training! Plus inevitably just paying foreign workers to review the recorded video when the models fail.
it helps assuage the fear that someone out there might be benefiting in a way they do not "deserve" (which in the minds of the investor class means the worker, who is poorer than you, benefiting in any way whatsoever)
management has been aggressively pushing to opex vs. capex for at least the last 30 years.. from most employees being contractors, to magic beans, it's all the same
short term gains with terrible long-term prospects. but they've learned they won't be held accountable. at worst they might have to change jobs and probably end up making more.
Tech companies who stop using traditional means and, instead, move to using LLM services have given up their ability to do work over to the LLM vendors.
Once the subsidy from VCs ends the price will go up drastically - what choice will they have but pay it? They laid off all of their workers who knew how to make things happen.
Exactly. Even in the best case scenario for #AI, businesses are going to end up literal hostages. You'd think all those business school alumni could figure that out.
I am of a class of people who are born into this world where we are forced to rent ourselves out to a class of people, so we can pay rent to the same class of people.
And that’s the benign side of the argument, really.
There’s a darker side, where psychopathic & narcissistic leaders can maintain companies whose mode of operation goes way beyond anything a real human would ever work for.
The elimination of moral human agency will enable actors whose cruelty will go beyond anything ever experienced by humanity so far.
AFAICT the answer to the riddle is that these execs are not thinking like rational businesspeople, however much they might speak and justify themselves in those terms.
It's about screwing people over, disempowering them, and replacing them with obedient machines that can't talk back. An LLM will never outmanoeuvre you in office politics, or threaten your bonus.
in many European countries (I don't know much about the US or UK), we not only have worker rights, but also the reverse: There are laws protecting the employer against unfair retaliation from the workers. Changing to renting AI throws these rights out the window.
It boggles the mind that anyone is willing to take that risk.
Much like crypto completely does away with consumer rights and protections in the banking system.
the high price and low quality will hit the sweet spot where a company can't justify hiring people to replace the AI, but the quality is just low enough to bleed the company to death
So during the era of Biden, there was this X report that seemed to be heavily influenced by Q slop.
And for 4 years lots of people bought the premise that Trump was stil in control. Even when he had to spend most of his time defending himself in court against baseless accusations they claimed that it was just theater.
Trump was still in control. I lost count of how many times Hillary Clinton was executed and replaced by a clone.
Sunday sermon Hebrews 7:16 Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. In Context | Full Chapter | Other Translatio…
💚 The Green Party is the only party offering a real alternative and despite what the media would have you believe, with a total of 859 hard working councillors, we have more than Reform!
An alternative? Doesn't it stand for 15 minute cities, mass starvation, no meat, no affordable reliable electricity, no cars, in short no humanity, just like the UN and the WEF?
Diskussion in der Familie, Elternteilen. AfD finden sie gefährlich, CDU nicht so schlimm wie ich. Wählen in Teilen SPD. Als ich auf Nachfrage meine Position zu #ePA mitgeteilt habe, aber einen Zusammenhang zwischen dem eugenetischen Diskurs, der transfeindlichen Politik in den USA, der Blut-und-Boden-Ideologie von Wolfram Weimer, den ableistischen Anfragen der AfD im Bundestag und ihrem Erstarken hergestellt habe, wurde allen Angst und Bange. Ich wurde gefragt, warum so etwas nicht breiter bekannt sei, diese Zusammenhänge nicht hergestellt werden. Daraufhin konnte ich noch problematisieren, dass die Talkshows im ÖRR GmbHs sind, der Profitlogik folgen, weil Einschaltquoten zählen, aber nicht der eigentliche politische Bildungsauftrag. Aber ganz ehrlich. Ich habe mich nach dem Gespräch sehr hilflos gefühlt.
37 Prozent der Befragten sprachen sich gegen ein Verbot der deutschen Partei aus. Von der FPÖ, Ungarn und dem US-Außenministerium bekommt die AfD Rückendeckung
"I feel like Cynthia Erivo didn’t get the memo. She seems to think it’s still 2021 and the world gives a shit about rich-people problems. ‘It isn’t easy’, the Wicked star told a roomful of well-heeled LGBT activists in LA last week. She was wearing a sombre look and a Dior dress that cost more than all the clothes you’ve ever owned. I don’t need to tell you she wasn’t talking about soaring energy bills or war in Europe. No, what’s ‘not easy’ is that this obscenely rich star of stage and screen sometimes has to remind people to use they / them pronouns for ‘nonbinary’ people." #BrendanONeill #NonBinary #Leftism #Wokeism
I do but I worry even more about the 26 dual citizenship Israeli-US representatives in the House of Representatives because they not only steal technology but influence policy in favor of a genocidal psychopathic nation.
Was die Einstufung einer rechtsextremen Partei als rechtsextrem nun für Medien und Journalismus bedeutet - ein Thread mit Thesen, Fragen und Forderungen:
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Two months into a devastating aid blockade of Gaza food has run out and people are fighting over water amid relentless bombing, the UN’s humanitarian affairs coordination office (OCHA) said on Friday.
Stalin: I know that after my death a pile of rubbish will be heaped on my grave, but the wind of History will sooner or later sweep it away without mercy. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Les accusés nient et se renvoient la responsabilité des faits, malgré l’existence d’une vidéo et de messages célébrant le tronçonnage de l’arbre centenaire, en septembre 2023.
Les accusés nient et se renvoient la responsabilité des faits, malgré l’existence d’une vidéo et de messages célébrant le tronçonnage de l’arbre centenaire, en septembre 2023.
Comme tous les végétaux, l'arbre ne ressent rien. C'est quoi ce monde de merde où on peut pas prendre sa tronçonneuse et abattre un arbre pour le buzz. Et après on ose me parle de liberté !
Non d'accord avec toi les animaux ne ressentent pas non plus mais dire que les humains ne ressentent pas tu y vas un peu fort. Je te rappelle qu'on est la race suprême.
PS: super chaud d'écrire depuis le portable quand le chat s'y frotte avec la tête.
J'étais toujours dans l'ironie… je pensais aux réfugiés, aux immigrés, aux pauvres… Tu sais mon opinion sur l'humanité, et ma misanthropie proportionnelle au plus grand nombre.
W. E. B. Du Bois: Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and courageous. He seldom lost his poise; pondered his problems slowly, made his decisions clearly and firmly; never yielded to ostentation nor coyly refrained from holding his rightful place with dignity. He was the son of a serf but stood calmly before the great without hesitation or nerves. But also—and this was the highest proof of his greatness—he knew the common man, felt his problems, followed his fate. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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