#sm

The most important thing in our war preparations is to teach all our people to hate U.S. imperialism. Otherwise, we will not be able to defeat the U.S. imperialists who boast of their technological superiority. ↗

— Kim Il-sung

#boast #defeat #hate #imperialism #imperialists

My grandmother valued even the smallest of things. ↗

— Koichi Tanaka

#grandmother #smallest #things #valued

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#anti-semitism #cut #noxious #out #place

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. ↗

— William Howard Taft

#adequate #basis #effort #enlightened #enterprise

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#child #dismiss #first #first time #name

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#beholds #face #her #mirror #own

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dark #great #great silence #great truth #sea

Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

#extremism #fight #governments #israel #logic

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause. ↗

— David Talbot

#became #cause #change #change the world #college

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. ↗

— Charles Maurice de Talleyrand

#expedite #foresee #inevitable #occurrence #statesmanship