“Socialism is the only political form that has democratic values.”
“Among the political attitudes that prevail in Germany today, only socialism has the potentiality of inner value and integrity.”
Prussianism and Socialism (1919)
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Source: The Death of Economics (1994), Chapter 10, Economics Revisited, p. 206
“The bureaucratic method of building an integrated Europe has exhausted its potential.”
"Can Europe Work? A Plan to Rescue the Union" in Foreign Affairs (September/October 1996)
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
New Mindset on Consciousness (1987)
Context: What is needed to break the vicious spiral is a world-wide change in attitudes, values, and social policy. As Einstein put it, "We need a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
“Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.”
This evokes Will Durant's famous summation of Aristotle: "Excellence then is not an act, but a habit."
2000s, The Powell Principles (2003)
Context: If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
To Leon Goldensohn (13 March 1946). Quoted in "The Nuremberg Interviews" - by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004
Speaking on the Radio Station Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland, as quoted in "Angela Merkel says burqa incompatible with integration in society for Muslim women" http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/angela-merkel-says-burqa-incompatible-integration-society-muslim-women-1576944 by Callum Paton, International Business Times (19 August 2016).
2016
“The only activities of true value are those which aim at inner transformation.”
Inspire Yourself