- Tom, move Zoe's piece to the front page of Sunday's edition.Chapter 3
- Let me think that over.
- You think it over as much as you want. Then put it on the front page.
What you have to understand about my people is that they are a noble people.
Humility is their form of pride.
It is their strength. It is their weakness.
And if you can humble yourself before them, they will do anything you ask.
No sooner do they arrive in a place than they are anxious to know what amusements it affords; just as though they were beggars asking where they could receive a dole!
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But that a God like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good--that will not do at all! In its explanation of the origin of the world, Judaism is inferior to any other form of religious doctrine professed by a civilized nation; and it is quite in keeping with this that it is the only one which presents no trace whatever of any belief in the immortality of the soul.
- The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism
Прямые были страсти —
Порядка ж ни на грош.
Известно, что без власти
Далёко не уйдешь
Граф А.К.Толстой
It is a theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr, who is considered the ideologist of the so-called realist school. Now, his criticism of the liberal, optimistic, individualistic philosophy of foreign policy has as its origin and basis a certain conception of human nature. Man is corrupted by sin. He is selfish and violent. The collective beings that constitute states are worse than individual beings. The former occasionally practice the Christian virtues, the latter never. The immorality of states in conflict with one another is all the greater in that the citizens can have the legitimate feeling of acting morally when they dedicate and occasionally even sacrifice themselves to the state. But since the latter is fundamentally immoral, self-seeking, violent, the citizens remain prisoners of a sort of tribal egoism, even when they serve the collectivity.
Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1966), pp. 591-600
Никто, как в детстве, нас не ждет внизу,
Не переводит нас через дорогу.
Про злого муравья и стрекозу
Не говорит. Не учит верить Богу.
До нас теперь нет дела никому -
У всех довольно собственного дела.
И надо жить, как все, - но самому...
(Беспомощно, нечестно, неумело).
- Анатолий Сергеевич Штейгер
Perhaps it makes things easier that the arguments in all the different languages are remarkably similar and endlessly reiterated.
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But the identification of Judaism with materialism, with the things of this world, predates the appearance of capitalism in Europe by at least 1,500 years.
[how about another 500 years back - vs]
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Judaism’s associations with worldly power and subversive rebellion are closely linked, for what is rebellion but an effort to seize power? So Jewish bankers can rule the world and Jewish Bolsheviks can aspire to overthrow and replace the bankers. In some alcoves of the Western imagination, the two groups can almost appear as co-conspirators.
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Arendt actually draws on the statistical work of Walter Frank, a Nazi economist, who headed an Institute for the History of the New Germany, to support her account of the role of the Jews in the German bourgeoisie. It can’t be the case, she argues, that the Nazis, who had “to persuade and mobilize people,” could have chosen their victims arbitrarily. There has to be a concrete answer, a local socioeconomic answer, to the question: Why the Jews?
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No doubt, Jews sometimes act out the roles that anti-Judaism assigns them—but so do the members of all the other national and religious groups, and in much greater numbers. The theory does not depend on the behavior of “real” Jews.
[what the fuck is this if i may ask - vs]
[выделено мной - вс]
- Imaginary Jews
The sudden appearance on the scene of this contender for the throne was to lead to some rapid thinking in London and Calcutta. For there, at that very moment [1879], British plans for the future of Afghanistan were under urgent discussion. ... The consensus was that the country should be broken up, thereby making it more difficult for the Russians, or any other potential enemy, to gain control of it. - The Great Game, pg. 396
Однажды, после продолжительного своего отсутствия, Федор Андреич возвратился в деревню в сопровождении шестидесятилетнего старика и миловидной молоденькой девушки. - Мертвое озеро, Н.А. Некрасов, 1851
Мне иногда кажется, сидят где-то в Америке над большой лужей и как над крысами проводят эксперименты, не понимая последствий того, что они делают. Зачем они это делают, нет ответа.
Пресс-конференция Владимира Путина. РИА Новости
...Тогда, растворив в зеркалах рассвет,
Весь в молниях и звонках,
Пылая лаковой желтизной,
Ко мне подлетел трамвай.
- Последняя ночь
