Don’t be afraid to walk slowly – Chinese Wisdom
“Don’t be afraid to walk slowly, just be afraid to stop.”
Chinesische Weisheit
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Quiet Confidence as Key to Leadership – Fred Wilson
“A person who is quietly confident is the best leader.”
Fred Wilson
H. P. Lovecraft Quote on Physical Force and Human Decisions
“The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Quote by H. P. Lovecraft on Cat Lovers and Worldview
“The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Critical Quote about Humanity by H. P. Lovecraft
“I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.”
H. P. Lovecraft
Harry Edson Browne: Critique of the Atomic Bombings
“There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons – killing innocent people to influence other people.”
Harry Edson Browne
Murray Rothbard on Child-Rearing and Learning
“The policy of letting the child ‘do what he likes’ is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to continue always at their original superficial level, without receiving guidance in study. Furthermore, the ‘three Rs,’ the fundamental tools, are neglected as long as possible, with the result that the child’s chance to develop his mind is greatly retarded. The policy of teaching words via pictures instead of by the alphabet tends to deprive the young child of the greatest reasoning tool of all.”
Murray Rothbard
George Orwell on Choosing Between Two Evils
“The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands.”
George Orwell
George Orwell Quote on Morality and Nationalism
“Actions are held to be good or bad, not on their own merits, but according to who does them. There is almost no kind of outrage-torture, imprisonment without trial, assassination, the bombing of civilians-which does not change its moral color when it is committed by ‘our’ side. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.”
George Orwell
“The World Is Beautiful” – Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
“The world is beautiful, but has a disease called man.”
Friedrich Nietzsche