
“The less we depend on each other, the less connected we become.”
New Year's Address 2010/2011 http://kongehuset.dk/english/Menu/news/her-majesty-the-queens-new-year-address-2010 (01 January 2011).
Society
“The less we depend on each other, the less connected we become.”
2010s, 2016 Democratic National Convention (2016)
“We have to distrust each other. It's our only defense against betrayal.”
2015, Remarks to the People of Africa (July 2015)
CNN TV interview during World Economic Forum at Davos (23 January 2013) http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/23/business/aliyev-rosneft-quest-davos/
Internal politics
Arthur's commentary
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: It is strange, when something rises before us as a possibility which we have hitherto believed to be very dreadful, we fancy it is a great crisis; that when we pass it we shall be different beings; some mighty change will have swept over our nature, and we shall lose entirely all our old selves, and become others. … Yet, when the thing, whether good or evil, is done, we find we were mistaken; we are seemingly much the same — neither much better nor worse; and then we cannot make it out; on either side there is a weakening of faith; we fancy we have been taken in; the mountain has heen in lahour, and we are perplexed to find the good less powerful than we expected, and the evil less evil.