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"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on action
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"Obedience is better than sacrifice."

Bible on obedience    Share

"Only he who believes is obedient and only he who is obedient believes."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on obedience
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"The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders."

Cocteau, Jean on obedience
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"The reason why men do not obey us is because they see the mud at the bottom of our eye."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on obedience    Share

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"A god who let us prove his existence would be an idol."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on god
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"The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on solitude
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"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich on strength
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"Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours."

Reagan, Ronald on recession
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"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for the mess we're in."

Reagan, Ronald on status quo
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"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"

Reagan, Ronald on work
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"Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."

Reagan, Ronald on unemployment
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"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Reagan, Ronald on bureaucracy
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"Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others."

Drew, Elizabeth on propaganda    Share

"Wanting to work is so rare a merit that it should be encouraged."

Lincoln, Abraham on work
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"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come."

Goebbels, Paul Joseph on fascism    Share

"We have made the Reich by propaganda."

Goebbels, Paul Joseph on propaganda    Share

"Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves."

Hoffer, Eric on propaganda
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"Propaganda is that branch of the art of lying which consists in nearly deceiving your friends without quite deceiving your enemies."

Cornford, Francis on propaganda    Share

"God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, This is my Country. "

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"Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liberty, without Freedom of Speech. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truththat God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid?"

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"Well, Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy? A republic, if you can keep it"

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised
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"Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt."

Franklin, Benjamin on debt
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"If we do not hang together, we will all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on cooperation
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"We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."

Franklin, Benjamin on cooperation    Share

"Well done, is better than well said."

Franklin, Benjamin on example
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"I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people."

Franklin, Benjamin on enemies
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"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."

Franklin, Benjamin on education
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"No nation was ever ruined by trade."

Franklin, Benjamin on economy and economics
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