
“[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
"The Question Mark Inside" (2008)
“[S]ocialism with authentic, political power must lead to tyranny and cruelty.”
2010s, Socialism's Legacy (2011)
“When you fight a war against a tyrant, who do you kill? You kill the victims of the tyrant.”
Love is most important. Least important would be power because if you have money, you automatically have power. Sex is also important because I'm a normal person.
Personal Quotes
Introductory Chapter.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1922)
Context: I am afraid that I hope so. We pay for these things too much in honour and in innocent lives. I went up the Tigris with one hundred Devon Territorials, young, clean, delightful fellows, full of the power of happiness and of making women and children glad. By them one saw vividly how great it was to be their kin, and English. And we were casting them by thousands into the fire to the worst of deaths, not to win the war but that the corn and rice and oil of Mesopotamia might be ours. The only need was to defeat our enemies (Turkey among them), and this was at last done in the wisdom of Allenby with less than four hundred killed, by turning to our uses the hands of the oppressed in Turkey. I am proudest of my thirty fights in that I did not have any of our own blood shed. All our subject provinces to me were not worth one dead Englishman.
“Military power wins battles, but spiritual power wins wars.”
As quoted in A Toolbox for Humanity: More Than 9000 Years of Thought (2004) by Lloyd Albert Johnson
“Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.”
"Journeying to democracy" in The Boston Globe (18 October 2007) http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2007/10/18/journeying_to_democracy/
Context: I fully understand the men behind Al Qaeda. They have tried to assassinate me twice before. The Pakistan Peoples Party and I represent everything they fear the most — moderation, democracy, equality for women, information, and technology. We represent the future of a modern Pakistan, a future that has no place in it for ignorance, intolerance, and terrorism.
The forces of moderation and democracy must, and will, prevail against extremism and dictatorship. I will not be intimidated. I will step out on the tarmac in Karachi not to complete a journey, but to begin one. Despite threats of death, I will not acquiesce to tyranny, but rather lead the fight against it.
“Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war.”
On the war against terrorism
Have We Already Been Defeated? (2001)
Context: Power can win the body count but it cannot win this war. Because the enemy is not human. This is a war against a malicious spirit. Only fools attempt to defeat a spirit with guns and rockets and bombs.
Source: Barbarian Sentiments - How The American Century Ends (1989), Chapter 5, Nationalism, p. 149.