“Paddy Ashdown is the only party leader who's a trained killer. Though, to be fair, Mrs Thatcher was self taught.”
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Man's Place in Nature https://archive.org/stream/MansPlaceInNature/Mans_Place_in_Nature#page/n101/mode/2up (1966), p. 100
Women Can't Hear What Men Don't Say (2000)
“We are taught to read but not trained to think”
Kalki : or The Future of Civilization (1929)
Context: Democracy has become confused with ignorance, lack of discipline, and low tastes … Though educational facilities are within the reach of large numbers, the level of culture is not high. It has become more easy to get into a college and more difficult to get educated. We are taught to read but not trained to think … Those who know better are afraid to speak out but keep step with the average mind. Uncivilized mass-impulses, crowd emotions and class-resentments have taken the place of authority and tradition.
On the Juche Idea, treatise submitted to the National Seminar on the Juche Idea (31 March 1982)
“This was a killer. Quite possibly a soldier, though Lilo was not expert in mental diseases.”
Source: The Ophiuchi Hotline (1977), Chapter 2 (p. 23)
Michael White, "Major's ultimate gamble", Guardian, 23 June 1995.
Statement in the garden of 10 Downing Street announcing his resignation as Conservative Party leader in order to seek re-election, 22 June 1995.
1990s, 1995
