
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
Source: Solipsist
Source: Julian Assange, "When Google Met Wikileaks" (ORbooks, New York, 2014), p.124
“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”
Source: Solipsist
Nelson Mandela on Aids, 46664 Concert, Tromso, Norway (11 Jun 2005). Source: From Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations © 2010 by Nelson R. Mandela and The Nelson Mandela Foundation http://www.nelsonmandela.org/content/mini-site/selected-quotes
2000s
Introduction to Ab urbe condita (trans. Aubrey de Sélincourt, 1960)
Context: The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement, for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds...
2010s, 2015, Presidential Bid Announcement (June 16, 2015)