That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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That which is good for the enemy harms you, and that which is good for you harms the enemy.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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(Live in Denmark)
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The collapse of Marxist belief systems led to a massive decline of subjective well-being among the people of the former Soviet Empire, a decline that lasted for decades, leaving an ideological vacuum to be filled by rising religiosity and nationalism.
~ Ronald Inglehart
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All social disturbances and upheavals have their roots in crises of individual self-esteem, and the great endeavor in which the masses most readily unite is basically a search for pride.
~ Eric Hoffer
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