Source: Eternal Treblinka (2002), p. 12
“If the way to hell is paved with good intentions, the way to defeat is paved with illusions.”
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
Source: You Can Change the World (2003), p. 68.
“Detraction paves the way for the very perfections which it doubts and denies.”
1870s, Self-Made Men (1872)
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
[N]ur die Höllenfahrt des Selbsterkenntnisses bahnt den Weg zur Vergötterung ...
Ak 6:441
Metaphysics of Morals (1797)
Q&A with community activists, February 10, 1989.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. That's one of the reasons why there are so many intelligence failures. They just never get anything straight, for all kinds of reasons. Part of it is because of the information they get. The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way. If you look at an FBI file, say, about yourself, where you know what the facts are, you'll see that the information has some kind of relation to the facts, you can figure out what they're talking about, but by the time it works its way through the ideological fanaticism of the intelligence agencies, there's always weird distortion.
From Attention Deficit Democracy (Palgrave, 2006) http://www.jimbovard.com/Epigrams%20Attention%20Deficit%20Democracy.htm
Address to the European Parliament (2015)
“All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs. Not my fault.”
The Sun Also Rises (1926)
