The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit. [by 朱冀平]
The Analects, Chapter I, Chapter IV
“Before man was aware of art he was aware of himself.”
Gregory Battcock (1937–1980)
L’Art Corporel, 1979
Context: Before man was aware of art he was aware of himself. Awareness of the person is, then, the first art. In performance art the figure of the artist is the tool for the art. It is the art.
“Man is the only living being who has a developed self-awareness and death-awareness.”
Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900–1975) geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Mourning and Funerals—For Whom (1977)
“We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization”
Silvio Berlusconi (1936) Italian politician
In response to the September 11 attacks of al-Queda, in Berlusconi: "Attacco mirato senza vittime fra i civili", in la Repubblica (26 September 2001) http://www.repubblica.it/online/mondo/italiadue/berlusconi/berlusconi.html <br class="br">2001 <br class="br">Context: We must be aware of the superiority of our civilization, a system that has guaranteed well-being, respect for human rights and — in contrast with Islamic countries — respect for religious and political rights, a system that has as its value understanding of diversity and tolerance … The West will continue to conquer peoples, even if it means a confrontation with another civilization, Islam, firmly entrenched where it was 1,400 years ago.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694–1773) British statesman and man of letters
17 March 1748
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, North Korea's Race Problem (February 2010)
Anton LaVey book The Devil's Notebook
The Devil's Notebook (1992)
“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”
Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation
Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”
“The corrupt man is nearly always rootless, deeply aware of his rootlessness.”
Pierre Stephen Robert Payne (1911–1983) British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
The Corrupt Individual, p. 63
The Corrupt Society - From Ancient Greece To Present-Day America (1975)
