“The Only cure for nihilism is for liberal democratic societies - their electorates, their judiciary, and their political leadership- to insist that force is legitimate only to the degree that it serves defensible poltical goals. Thus implies a constant exercise of due diligence.” PoliticalForceGoalExerciseDegreesConstantDemocraticDuesCuresDiligenceNihilismDemocratic SocietyJudiciaryElectoratePolitical LeadershipDue Diligence Author:Michael Ignatieff
“I think the key to success is vision that adjusts on the way, but doesn’t at all falter. It’s about not compromising and following your gut to a certain degree, based on knowledge, instinct, etc. And not listening to the naysayers.... You develop strength through adversity. You have to keep moving towards your goal through huge obstacles.” ThinkingWayMovingCertainGoalVisionHugeKeysListeningDegreesAdversityInstinctFollowingObstaclesCompromiseGutsEtcKey To SuccessKeep MovingStrength Through AdversityNaysayers Author:Millard Drexler
“U.S. international and security policy . . . has as its primary goal the preservation of what we might call "the Fifth Freedom," understood crudely but with a fair degree of accuracy as the freedom to rob, to exploit and to dominate, to undertake any course of action to ensure that existing privilege is protected and advanced.” MightActionCoursesGoalSecurityPolicyDegreesUnderstoodFairsInternationalPrivilegePrimariesProtectedPreservationFifthExploitsAccuracy Book:The Culture of Terrorism Source: The Culture of Terrorism
“...If peace were the goal of today's intellectuals, a failure of that magnitude -- and the evidence of unspeakable suffering on so large a scale -- would make them pause and check their statist premises. Instead, blind to everything but their hatred for capitalism, they are now asserting that 'poverty breeds wars' ... But the question is: What breeds poverty? If you look a the world of today and if you look back at history, you will see the answer: the degree of a country's freedom is the degree of its prosperity.” IfsWorldLooksWarCountryTodaySufferingGoalAnswersPovertyDegreesEvidenceCapitalismHatredBlindProsperityScalesChecksPausesPremisesMagnitudeUnspeakable Author:Ayn Rand
“Human ingenuity has given centuries to the goal of ensuring that the human body might move around at an even 68 degrees all year.” YearsHumansBodyMightMovingGivenGoalModernCenturyDegreesHuman BodyModern LifeIngenuity Author:Lance Morrow
“Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.” WaySelfBodyFormDeathFoundGoalStepsDyingDegreesWorthyYour BodyFamiliarEvident Author:Dag Hammarskjold
“The key thing in management is goal setting. In medicine, goal-based approach is particularly important. Management should be aimed at minimizing health damage and, with a high degree of correlation, at reducing mortality” ShouldImportantGoalKeysDegreesApproachManagementMedicineSettingSettingsDamageMortalitySetting GoalsReducingCorrelationKey ThingsMinimizing Author:Abel Aganbegyan