
“People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.”
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
Preface to the English edition (October 2002), p. xxi
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
“People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.”
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
"Unexamined Mental Attitudes Left Behind By Communism" http://www.dorislessing.org/unexamined.html, in Our Country, Our Culture - The Politics of Political Correctness (1994), Partisan Review Press, edited by Edith Kurzweil and William Philips
Quoted in A Dictionary of Quotations, in Most Frequent Use by D.E. Macdonnel (1809) translated from French: Le bonheur de l'homme en cette vi ne consiste pas á être sans passions: il consiste à en être le maître.
Misattributed
Source: On War (1832), Book 1, Chapter 3.
Context: Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea.
Source: 1940s and later, Otto Neurath Economic Writings. Selections 1904-1945 (2004), p. 278
Source: Jerusalem, or on Religious Power and Judaism (1783), p. 73
The Monroe Doctrine (2 December 1823)
Source: Permaculture: A Designers' Manual (1988), chapter 14.2