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War itself is the enemy of the human race. Howard Zinn

War Enemy Itself Human Race Human Race

The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry. James Truslow Adams

Freedom Care Worry Dare Freedom From Many Now Desired

Romantic love came under attack, first from the Freudians and then from the neuroscientists, who said that being in love was a chemical reaction in the brain. Marriage is no longer seen as a lifetime commitment. Jane Ridley

Love Marriage Commitment Seen First Attack Lifetime Longer Reaction Chemical Said Came Brain Being Romantic Romantic Love Being In Love Then Who

Secrecy is what is known, but not to everyone. Privacy is what allows us to keep what we know to ourselves. Jill Lepore

Privacy Secrecy Everyone Ourselves Know Known Us Keep

And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. John Dalberg-Acton

History You Remember Men Power Few Control Too Mentality Concentration Frequently Proven Get Hands Where Gangsters

Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly. Kate Williams

Trials Thought Devil Skin Unnatural Colour Most Witch Particularly Redheads Were Deathly Persecuted Which Centuries Fifteenth European Pale Associated

In the past, Britons were scathing about the cruelties of the old Roman empire and the excesses of Catholic empire builders such as the Spanish and the French. They convinced themselves that their empire was different and benign because it rested on sea power and trade rather than on armies. Linda Colley

Old Power Past Roman Empire Britons Benign Rested About Rather Excess Empire Armies French Catholic Because Builders Trade Were Than Roman Different In The Past Spanish Themselves Convinced Sea

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes. Livy

Men Recognize Slower Misfortunes Blessings Than

An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings. Margaret MacMillan

Sometimes Hurts Important Own Recompense Reconciliation Step Towards Equally Without Erupt Fester Offered Process Apology Received

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural. Michel Foucault

Nature Knowledge Natural Conflict Human Nature Outcome Rise Risk Gives Counter Part Combat Instinctive Human Just Form Really Chance Consequently

The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come, and we cannot approach it with a modicum of intelligence if we start out from a position of hatred. Michel Foucault

Time Intelligence Problem Political Hatred Islam Modicum Approach Our We Cannot Our Time Out Come Force Years Essential Cannot Start Position

In political and social analysis, we still have not cut off the head of the king. Michel Foucault

Political King Analysis Head Still Off Social Cut

As the Persians wrote very little about how they ran their affairs, the Greek propaganda of the 5th century B.C. has for centuries gone virtually unchallenged - indeed, for Edward Said, it was the beginning of Europe's long habit of misunderstanding and ill-informed contempt of the Middle East. Neil MacGregor

Long Beginning Gone Virtually Ran Indeed East Propaganda About Habit Wrote Contempt Said Misunderstanding How Affairs Edward Very Greek Middle Middle East Little Centuries Century Europe

We don't even know what our desire is. We ask other people to tell us our desires. We would like our desires to come from our deepest selves, our personal depths - but if it did, it would not be desire. Desire is always for something we feel we lack. Rene Girard

Learning that we have a scapegoat is to lose it forever and to expose ourselves to mimetic conflicts with no possible resolution. Rene Girard

Learning Lose Ourselves Possible Scapegoat Forever Conflicts Expose Resolution

It doesn't take much insight to realize that wars have been getting worse every time - worse from the point of view of the civilian, more and more destructive, more and more total. Rene Girard

Time Every Every Time Worse Destructive Total Insight Civilian More More And More Point Point Of View Take Been Getting Realize Much View Wars

Terrorism is the vanguard of a general revenge against the West's wealth. Rene Girard

Terrorism Revenge Wealth Vanguard General West Against

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war. Robert Dallek

Depression War Path Nation Sets Preserves Franklin Franklin Roosevelt Abraham Abraham Lincoln Sees Through Democratic Lincoln George George Washington Roosevelt Washington

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