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Feb 23, 2024 · Don't be quarrelsome, but stand up for your rights. If you've got to fight, fight hard and well. To my mind, a coward is the only thing meaner than a liar. Talk to schoolchildren in Oyster Bay, Christmastime (1898), as quoted in The Bully Pulpit : A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations (2002) by H. Paul Jeffers, p. 22.
George Orwell ( 25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was the pen name of British novelist, essayist, and journalist Eric Arthur Blair, whose work is characterised by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and strong support of democratic socialism . See also:
Jan 14, 2024 · Plato is also considered the founder of Western political philosophy. His most famous contribution is the theory of Forms known by pure reason, in which Plato presents a solution to the problem of universals known as Platonism (also ambiguously called either Platonic realism or Platonic idealism ).
Jan 31, 2024 · Adolf Hitler (adɔlf ˈhɪtlɐ; 20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. He rose to power as the leader of the Nazi Party, becoming the chancellor in 1933 and then taking the title of Führer ("Leader") in 1934.
Mar 17, 2024 · Bertrand Russell. Love is wise – hatred is foolish. The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell ( May 18, 1872 – February 2, 1970) was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. In 1950, he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature .
Feb 5, 2024 · Quotes of Kant as translated in The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904) by Edward Franklin Buchner. The child must be brought up free (that he allow others to be free). He must learn to endure the restraint to which freedom subjects itself for its own preservation (experience no subordination to his command).
Jan 4, 2024 · To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 25 May 1803 – 27 April 1882) was an American philosopher, essayist, and poet. The man who renounces himself, comes to himself. He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees ...