Lavrentiy Beria (1899–1953) Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and Soviet leader Stalin
Brain-Washing: A Synthesis of the Russian Textbook on Psychopolitics
“What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.”
Open Mind Interview https://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep498?start=467
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Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch
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Tom DeMarco (1940) American software engineer, author, and consultant
The Deadline (1997), p. 284.
“It's not what you don't know that kills you, it's what you know for sure that ain't true.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Variant: What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so.
“I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.”
Max Brooks book World War Z
Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
“We are so used to releasing words. We don't know what to do with them if they stay.”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
“We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish”
Kurt Waldheim (1918–2007) 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of Austria
quoted in the article The United Nations—How Strong a World Force?, in The Watchtower magazine, September 15, 1974.
Context: You must not expect the United Nations to accomplish miracles. We are made up of sovereign nations. We can only accomplish what our member nations allow us to accomplish.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) American general and politician, 34th president of the United States (in office from 1953 to 1961)
1950s, Address at the Philadelphia Convention Hall (1956)
Context: The right of no nation depends upon the date of its birth or the size of its power. As there can be no second class citizens before the law of America, so—we believe—there can be no second-class nations before the law of the world community.