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Paul Sweeney 4
Scottish politician 1989Related quotes
“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.”
Source: Escape from Freedom (1941), Ch. 7
Kaddish for a Child Not Born (1990)
“On average, successful people have had many more failures that unsuccessful people.”
This is Your Brain on Music (2006)
“He who reckons his own soul is successful; he who is heedless of it is unsuccessful.”
Muhammad Kulayni, Usūl al-Kāfī, vol.2, p. 111.
Religious Wisdom
“Relatively unsuccessful firms would be more likely to innovate than relatively successful firms.”
Source: A behavioral theory of the firm, 1959, p. 188
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Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Context: Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that the local must be the basis of the general; that there can be a free federation only when there are free communities to federate; that the spirit of the latter is carried into the councils of the former, and a local tyranny may thus become an instrument for general enslavement. Convinced of the supreme importance of ridding the municipalities of the institutions of tyranny, the most strenuous advocates of independence, instead of spending their efforts mainly in the general Congress, devoted themselves to their home localities, endeavoring to work out of the minds of their neighbors and fellow-colonists the institutions of entailed property, of a State-Church, of a class-divided people, even the institution of African slavery itself. Though largely unsuccessful, it is to the measure of success they did achieve that we are indebted for such liberties as we do retain, and not to the general government.