Source: Economics Of The Welfare State (Fourth Edition), Chapter 5, Insurance, p. 105
H. H. Asquith (1852–1928) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Letter to John Strachey (9 May 1908), quoted in H. C. G. Matthew, The Liberal Imperialists: The Ideas and Politics of a Post-Gladstonian Élite (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1973), p. 257
Prime Minister
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: The essence of our God is obscure. It ripens continuously; perhaps victory is strenghened with our every valorous deed, but perhaps even all these agonizing struggles toward deliverance and victory are inferior to the nature of divinity.
Whatever it might be, we fight on without certainty, and our virtue, uncertain of any rewards, acquires a profound nobility.
“Destiny was apparently a word describing an individual’s desperate need for certainty.”
Michael Moorcock book The City in the Autumn Stars
Source: The City in the Autumn Stars (1986), Chapter 12 (p. 349)
Bhimsen Thapa (1775–1839) Mukhtiyar and de facto ruler of Nepal from 1806 to 1837
As quoted in book Thapa Politics in Nepal: With Special Reference to Bhim Sen Thapa, 1806–1839 https://books.google.com.np/books?id=7PP1yElRzIUC&dq=bhimsen+thapa&source=gbs_navlinks_s|
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
2010s, 2016, July, (21 July 2016)
“Every individual being has the ability to acquire intuitive knowledge.”
Shah Badakhshi Indian poet
Source: The Sayings and Teachings of the Great Mystics of Islam (2004), p. 203
Paul A. Baran (1909–1964) American Marxist economist
Source: The Political Economy Of Growth (1957), Chapter Four, Standstill and Movement Under Monopoly Capitalism, II, p. 110
Lee Atwater (1951–1991) American political consultant and strategist
Source: Interview in Life (January 1991)
