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I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#aside #been #cast #conquer #country

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#begin #giants #over #pygmies #wars

I remember that during the period leading up to independence in Angola in 1975, I was the only correspondent there at all for three months. ↗

— Ryszard Kapuscinski

#correspondent #during #i #i remember #independence

We criticize Americans for not being able either to analyse or conceptualize. But this is a wrong-headed critique. It is we who imagine that everything culminates in transcendence, and that nothing exists which has not been conceptualized. Not only do they care little for such a view, but their perspective is the very opposite: it is not conceptualizing reality, but realizing concepts and materializing ideas, that interests them. The ideas of the religion and enlightened morality of the eighteenth century certainly, but also dreams, scientific values, and sexual perversions. Materializing freedom, but also the unconscious. Our phantasies around space and fiction, but also our phantasies of sincerity and virtue, or our mad dreams of technicity. Everything that has been dreamt on this side of the Atlantic has a chance of being realized on the other. They build the real out of ideas. We transform the real into ideas, or into ideology. ↗

— Jean Baudrillard

#baudrillard #sociology #dreams

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#already #always #avoid #because #beforehand

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#give #more #power #receive #than

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#gas #like #may #much #poison

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. ↗