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“I am a Christian, therefore I am a communist.”

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Gianni Vattimo, an Italian politician, was born on January 4, 1936. He is renowned for his contributions to postmodern philosophy, particularly in the fields of deconstruction and critical theory. more

“Hermeneutics is a way of looking at Being as an inheritance that is never considered as ultimate data. Capitalism has always grown by considering, or forcing another to consider, as a 'natural' possession what is inherited. The great dominating families are really the inheritors of the strongest pirates, thieves, and bandits, and they consider themselves entitled to command through a divine or natural law, when they really are only the result of a forgotten 'violence'.”

Source: Hermeneutic Communism: From Heidegger to Marx

“Tradition is the transmitting of linguistic messages that constitute the horizon within which Dasein is thrown as a historically determined project: and tradition derives its importance from the fact that Being, as a horizon of disclosure in which things appear, can arise only as a trace of past words or as an announcement that has been handed down to us.”

Has Beens Facts Past Projects Messages Tradition Importance Determined Arise Thrown Horizon Disclosure Announcements

Author:Gianni Vattimo

“Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.”

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Author:Idi Amin

“I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.”

World Want Powerful Figures Most Powerful Controlled Superpower Uganda

Author:Idi Amin

“There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech”

Speech Guarantees Freedom Of Speech Uganda

Author:Idi Amin

“Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.”

Trying Opponents Boxing Uganda

Author:Idi Amin

“I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.”

Want Athlete Remembered Champion Boxing Great Athlete Boxing Champions

Author:Idi Amin

“Once, somebody asked Robert Schumann to explain the meaning of a certain piece of music he had just played on the piano. What Robert Schumann did was sit back down at the piano and play the piece of music again.”

Play Certain Pieces Piano Schumann

Book:Wittgenstein's mistress

Source: Wittgenstein's mistress

“Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?”

Thinking Years Three Poet Twenties Paris Encounters Eliot

Author:David Markson

“Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?”

Thinking Book Film Three Interest Protagonists

Book:Reader's Block

Source: Reader's Block

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