“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.” MenGivingDoeEndsDesireEnergyLosesWealthPovertyCasesOughtExerciseGainsIdealsSlaveBoundsTerrorCorruptionChosenChiefsPortionsCowardiceElsewhereBe A SlaveFreemanBreeders Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience
“It's a disgrace to see my church giving Holy Communion to a man who helped lead a reign of terror. What is the message? You kill, you maim, you commit crime, and you gain sanctuary. It's shameful.” MenGivingChurchCrimeHolyMessagesGainsTerrorCommitCommunionReignDisgraceSanctuaryShamefulHoly CommunionReign Of Terror Author:Curtis Sliwa
“Is it possible, then, to doubt that we can and must gain victory over the German invaders? The enemy is not as strong as some terror-stricken pseudo-intellectuals picture him. The devil is not as terrible as he is painted.” StrongEnemyDoubtVictoryTerribleDevilGainsTerrorPseudoInvadersPseudo Intellectuals Author:Joseph Stalin
“Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques is true?” KnowsSaidUsedEnemyOffersGainsHistoricalTerrorTechniqueAdministrationFantasticIronyTortureSuspectsConfessionMccainVietnamese Author:Andrew Sullivan
“The Iranian regime suppresses its own people as well as others in the region. It prevents peace by sponsoring terror globally. With the ultimate weapon that it is deceptively developing, the regime aims to gain hegemony over the entire Middle East and hold the world's economy hostage.” PeopleWorldWellsEconomyMiddleWeaponsGainsUltimateAimTerrorEastDevelopingRegionsRegimesMiddle EastIranianHostageHegemony Author:Shimon Peres
“The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder.” PeopleMaySometimesMomentsMightUnderstandingWonderGreaterSacrificeLosingGainsRootsTerrorPossessionChainsTiesFancyWhy NotGlobes Book:The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Point counter point
“A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reform. It does not haggle over expenditures for armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.” PeopleDoeWarPoliticsSocialEasyPayMilitarySourceDemandGainsTerrorRuinsReformExcellentDiscussionPatrioticPerpetualEquipmentInvasionMenaceSocial ReformExpendituresArmamentFinanciersSyndicateMilitary Equipment Author:Anatole France