On Georges Clemenceau, in Chapter III, p. 32
The Economic Consequences of the Peace (1919)
“The servicemen of the 1939 - 45 war could not be disillusioned because they held not illusions to start with, the most common mood found everywhere was one of dour resolution, skeptical, resigned.”
Introductory Essay 'Setting the Scene'
Not Without Glory, 1976
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Source: The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), Chapter 8, Balancing versus Buck-Passing, p. 307
“The point of modernity is to live a life without illusions while not becoming disillusioned”
Antonio Gramsci
(1891–1937) Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and linguist
Robert Wilson Lynd
(1879–1949) Irish writer
Searchlights and Nightingales https://books.google.com/books?id=z7pCAQAAIAAJ&dq=%22The+belief+in+the+possibility+of+a+short+decisive+war+appears+to+be+one+of+the+most+ancient+and+dangerous+of+human+illusions.%22&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22human+illusions%22 [Google Books snippet view only] (1939), p. 67.
“The only way there could be war is if they start it; we're not going to start a war.”
Ronald Reagan
(1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)
Declaring what he would tell Yuri Andropov, head of the Soviet Union, were he in the room; in an interview http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1983/120683c.htm for People magazine (12 June 1983)
1980s, First term of office (1981–1985)
Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), Purpose of the Book
Vladimir Lenin
(1870–1924) Russian politician, led the October Revolution
Collected Works, Vol. 7, pp. 43–56
Collected Works
Gustave de Molinari
(1819–1912) Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist
Source: The Production of Security (1849), p. 20
Neil Postman
(1931–2003) American writer and academic
Teaching as a Subversive Activity (1969)
Context: A variation of the "photographic" effect of language consists of how blurred the photograph is. "Blurring" occurs as a result of general class names, rendering distinctions among members of the class less visible. One of the most common manifestations of the lack of this kind of semantic awareness can be found in what is called "prejudice": a response to an individual is predetermined because the name of the class in which the person is included is prejudiced negatively. The most obvious and ordinary remark made in cases of this kind, "They are all alike," makes the point clear.
Aphorism 97
Novum Organum (1620), Book I
Context: No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed.