“One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.”
Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade
Source: Masquerade
Quoted in "Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination" - Page 405 - by Ben Kiernan - Social Science - 2007.
“One should not seek those who do not wish to be found.”
Melissa de la Cruz book Masquerade
Source: Masquerade
“Power should be entrusted only to those who do not seek it.”
Richard Rohr (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
"Politics and Spirituality conference, Washington D.C. 2006"
“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.”
André Gide (1869–1951) French novelist and essayist
Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits
So be it; or, The chips are down
Gallimard
1952
174
Original: (fr) Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.
Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist
Source: Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
“We do not argue with those who disagree with us, we destroy them.”
Benito Mussolini (1883–1945) Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Leader of the National Fascist Party and subsequen…
The Lazio Speeches (1936), as quoted in The Book of Italian Wisdom by Antonio Santi, Citadel Press, 2003. p. 88.
1930s
Bhartrihari (570) Indian linguist, poet and writer
Nītiśataka 74; translated by B. Hale Wortham
Śatakatraya
Barry Goldwater (1909–1998) American politician
Acceptance Speech http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/daily/may98/goldwaterspeech.htm as the Republican Presidential candidate, San Francisco (July 1964)<br>Unsourced variant: Now those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth, and let me remind you they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyranny. <br class="br">Context: Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality, ladies and gentlemen. Equality, rightly understood, as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.