“The devil still rebelled, despite having lived in paradise for many years.”
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The Fourth Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture Address, Johannesburg, South Africa https://www.nelsonmandela.org/news/entry/the-fourth-nelson-mandela-annual-lecture-address (29 July 2006)
“No thought for the hereafter have the wise,
for on this very earth they live in paradise”
The Cherubinic Wanderer
“Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise.”
Preface To The Second Edition, p. 27-28.
The Theory of Political Economy (1871)
Context: The conclusion to which I am ever more clearly coming is that the only hope of attaining a true system of economics is to fling aside, once and forever, the mazy and preposterous assumptions of the Ricardian school. Our English economists have been living in a fool's paradise. The truth is with the French school, and the sooner we recognize the fact, the better it will be for all the world, except perhaps the few writers who are far too committed to the old erroneous doctrines to allow for renunciation.
“The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels.”
Cesare to Macchiavelli (October, 1502), as quoted by Rafael Sabatini, 'The Life of Cesare Borgia', Chapter XV: Macchiavelli's Legation
Rock and Roll Rebel, written by Ozzy Osbourne.
Song lyrics, Bark at the Moon (1983)