John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 265-266
Source: The End of the American Era (2002), Chapter six: "The Limits of American Internationalism—Looking Ahead"
John Ashcroft (1942) American politician
Source: Never Again: Securing America and Restoring Justice (2006), p. 265-266
“…conditioning usually reinforces instinct rather than overrides it.”
Matt Ridley (1958) economist
Source: The Red Queen (1993), Ch. 6
“In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.”
Leon Trotsky (1879–1940) Marxist revolutionary from Russia
The Russian Revolution (1930)
Thomas Carlyle book Latter-Day Pamphlets
1850s, Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850), The Present Time (February 1, 1850)
“Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
“The valor that struggles is better than the weakness that endures.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) German philosopher
“Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“It's only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it's not terrorism.”
Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda