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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.”

Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Nietzsche was a German philosopher, cultural critic, poet, and writer whose works have had a profound impact on subsequent philosophy, literature, and thought. His ideas revolve around concepts such as the 'will to power', the 'Übermensch', and the 'eternal recurrence'. more

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“The corruption of the age is made up by the particular contribution of every individual man; some contribute treachery, others injustice, atheism, tyranny, avarice, cruelty, according to their power.”

Men Made Age Individual Power Atheism Particular Injustice Corruption Tyranny Cruelty Contribution Avarice Treachery

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“The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.”

Men Able Imagination Power Gun Impulse

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.”

Said Powerful Power Worst Weak Most Powerful Worst Things

Book:Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think

“The efficiency of a truly national leader consists primarily in preventing the division of the attention of a people, and always in concentrating it on a single enemy.”

People Attention Leader Enemy Power Division Efficiency Preventing Concentrating

Book:Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

Source: Mein Kampf: complete and unabridged, fully annotated

“It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.”

Ifs Thinking Want Made God Seems Infinite Want U

Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll

“Never yet has a God been defined in terms which were not palpably self-contradictory and absurd; never yet has a God been described so that a concept of Him was made possible to human thought.”

Humans Made Self God Religion Term Atheism Concepts Absurd Defined Contradictory Human Thought

Book:The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years

Source: The Origins of Theosophy (Routledge Revivals): Annie Besant - The Atheist Years

“If God is, man is a slave; now, man can and must be free; then, God does not exist. I defy anyone whomsoever to avoid this circle; now, therefore, let all choose.”

Ifs Men Doe God Slave Circles

Book:God and the State

Source: God and the State

“Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who felt the anguish of the poor. He was an orator of excellence who spoke for the voiceless. He was a son of Harvard who reached out to the sons and daughters of Appalachia. He was a man of special grace who had a special care for the retarded and handicapped. He was a hero of war who fought hardest for peace. He said and proved in word and deed that one man can make a difference.”

“The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.”

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Author:Mao Zedong

“In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.”

Politics Middle Politician Temperament Acquisition

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Source: Tailor blood and other notes and comments