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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Author Archives: Jasper John MacKay
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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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The divine is everywhere, even in a grain of sand.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.
~ Ernest Hemingway
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The simple truth is that perseverance in good policies is the only avenue to success.
~ Dean Acheson
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The working class is immense, varied, and not all that amenable to being led. It’s more atomized, more independent-minded, more conspiracy-minded and cynical than it was a couple of generations ago.
~ George Packer via The Atlantic
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Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister—corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear.
~ Richard Rorty
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Fear of evil is greater than the evil itself.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The post-information age is about acquaintance over time: machines’ understanding individuals with the same degree of subtlety (or more than) we can expect from other human beings, including idiosyncrasies and totally random events, good and bad, in the unfolding narrative of our lives.
~ Nicholas Negroponte
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