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“We must advance … because Christianity and Freedom are incompatible”
François-Noël Babeuf (1760–1797) French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period
Il faut avancer... parce que le christianisme et la liberté sont incompatibles
[in Gracchus Babeuf avec les Egaux, Jean-Marc Shiappa, Les éditions ouvrières, 1991, 72, 27082 2892-7]
On religion
“Modernity: we created youth without heroism, age without wisdom, and life without grandeur.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb book The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
Source: The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010), p. 27
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
On the Mindless Menace of Violence (1968)
Context: Yet we know what we must do. It is to achieve true justice among our fellow citizens. The question is not what programs we should seek to enact. The question is whether we can find in our own midst and in our own hearts that leadership of humane purpose that will recognize the terrible truths of our existence. We must admit the vanity of our false distinctions among men and learn to find our own advancement in the search for the advancement of others. We must admit in ourselves that our own children's future cannot be built on the misfortunes of others. We must recognize that this short life can neither be ennobled or enriched by hatred or revenge.
“The Middle Ages burned its heretics and the modern age threatens them with atom bombs.”
Harold Innis (1894–1952) Canadian professor of political economy
Industrialism and Cultural Values p. 139.
The Bias of Communication (1951)
“Age is always advancing and I'm fairly sure it's up to no good.”
Jim Butcher book White Night
Source: White Night
“One can advance a long time in life without aging.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
Benjamín Netanyahu (1949) Israeli prime minister
Speech at the U.S. Congress https://web.archive.org/web/20130704215008/http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/Text-of-PM-Binyamin-Netanyahus-speech-to-the-US-Congress (May 24, 2011). <br class="br">2010s, 2011, Address to joint meeting of the U.S. Congress (May 2011)
Fritz London (1900–1954) American physicist
[Fritz London, Edmond Bauer, La théorie de l'observation en mécanique quantique, Hermann, Paris, 1939]
Translation by [John Archibald Wheeler, Wojciech Hubert Zurek, Quantum Theory and Measurement, Princeton University Press, 1983, 0-691-08315-0, 220]
