“If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.”
"The Reverent Thomas' Dirty Little Planet", p. 141
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later
“If there is any consistent enemy of science, it is not religion, but irrationalism.”
"The Reverent Thomas' Dirty Little Planet", p. 141
Ever Since Darwin (1977)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.”
"Anti-Semitism: Reply to an inquiry of the Jewish News Agency in the United States" (12 January 1931)
Stalin's speeches, writings and authorised interviews
Context: National and racial chauvinism is a vestige of the misanthropic customs characteristic of the period of cannibalism. Anti-Semitism, as an extreme form of racial chauvinism, is the most dangerous vestige of cannibalism. Anti-semitism is of advantage to the exploiters as a lightning conductor that deflects the blows aimed by the working people at capitalism. Anti-Semitism is dangerous for the toilers, for it is a false track which diverts them from the proper road and leads them into the jungle. Hence, Communists, as consistent internationalists, cannot but be irreconcilable and bitter enemies of anti-Semitism. In the U. S. S. R., anti-Semitism is strictly prosecuted as a phenomenon hostile to the Soviet system. According to the laws of the U. S. S. R. active anti-Semites are punished with death.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
As cited in: Margaret A. Byrnes, Jeanne Baxter (2006), The Principal's Leadership Counts!. p. 99
Good To Great And The Social Sectors, 2005
“If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her”
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.”
Source: Enemies of Promise (1938), Part 2: The Charlock’s Shade, Ch. 14: The Charlock’s Shade (p. 116)