#lit

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace. ↗

— Aristotle

#peacemaking #politics #war #political

Every person who is offered a knighthood has the opportunity to say yes or no. You get a letter from the Prime Minister saying you've been recommended for a knighthood and there are two little boxes, one says yes, one says no. ↗

— Derek Jacobi

#boxes #every #get #knighthood #letter

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it. ↗

— William James

#act #already #had #quality #want

Everything depends therefore on encountering thought at its source. Such thought is the reality of man's being, which achieved consciousness and understanding of itself through it. ↗

— Karl Jaspers

#being #consciousness #depends #encountering #everything

'Referring the matter to a committee' can be a device for diluting authority, diffusing responsibility and delaying decisions. ↗

— Antony Jay

#committee #decisions #device #matter #referring

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#always #asset #felt #greatest #greatest asset

I think it's impossible for any of us not to find television, and the political process at its best on television, compelling. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#best #compelling #find #i #i think

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#book #center #character #imagine #literary

America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for. ↗

— Bill Johnson

#allows #america #binding #compensation #court

How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#politics #political