Frases

Frases

""Não há nenhum pensamento importante que a burrice não saiba usar, ela é móvel para todos os lados e pode vestir todos os trajes da verdade. A verdade, porém, tem apenas um vestido de cada vez e só um caminho, e está sempre em desvantagem"Robert Musil em O Homem sem Qualidades


"Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehoods school. And the one man that dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool" 
Platão. 
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"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality."
 Bishop Desmond Tutu
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"He does not believe who does not live according to his belief." -
Thomas Fuller
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Be alert that dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify. And don't regard yourself as a guardian of freedom unless you respect and preserve the rights of people you disagree with to free, public, unhampered Expression:
Gerard K. O'Neill, 2081

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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding: 
Louis D. Brandeis

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Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose: 
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist

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The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting:
Justice William J. Brennan, 1982

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We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us. We must get away from the idea that America is to be the leader of the world in everything. She can lead in some things. The old "manifest destiny" idea ought to be modified so that each nation has the manifest destiny to do the best it can - and that without cant, without the assumption of self-righteousness and with a desire to learn to the uttermost from other nations:

Francis John McConnell

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 We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security: 
Dwight David Eisenhower : 34th president of the United States, 1890-1969

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I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction :
John Steinbeck: American novelist, Nobel Prize for Literature for 1962, 1902-1968

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The only security for the American people today, or for any people, is to be found through the control of force rather than the use of force :
Norman Cousins: American essayist and editor, long associated with the Saturday Review, 1912-1990


Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous : 
William Proxmire

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Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.:
Groucho Marx: American comedian, actor and singer, 1890-1977

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In war, there are no unwounded soldiers:
Jose Narosky