Real power begins where secrecy begins.
~ Hannah Arendt
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Category Archives: 1947 – Quote, Unquote
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Amongst other English prophets, a belief in whose power has not been entirely effaced by the light of advancing knowledge, is Robert Nixon, the Cheshire idiot, a contemporary of Mother Shipton. The popular accounts of this man say, that he was born of poor parents, not far from Vale Royal, on the edge of the forest of Delamere.
~ Charles MacKay
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Good design is consistent in every detail.
~ Dieter Rams
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In all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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The more cunning a man is, the less he suspects that he will be caught in a simple thing. The more cunning a man is, the simpler the trap he must be caught in.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are, and those few dare not oppose themselves to the opinion of the many, who have the majesty of the state to defend them.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Every truthful work of art must express a definite feeling, must move the spirit of the spectator either to joy or to sadness.
~ Caspar David Friedrich
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Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.
~ A. J. Liebling
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The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
~ Timothy Snyder
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