[Dean's World] Aziz P: spoken like a mensch

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Posted by Aziz P:
spoken like a mensch
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   Some quotes for rumination.

   "Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the
   other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left
   to its own course it ends in power's disappearance." -- Arendt, Hannah

   "Without a love of humankind there is no love of God." -- Asch, Sholem

   "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." -- Asimov, Isaac

   "Democracy substitutes self-restraint for external restraint. It is
   more difficult to maintain than to achieve." -- Brandeis, Louis D.

   "Just as the Temple was destroyed through baseless hatred, it will
   only be rebuilt through baseless love." -- Kook, Rav

   ""My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think
   of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother,
   drunk or sober."" -- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

   "The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the
   individuals composing it." -- Mill, John Stuart

   "Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything,
   except perhaps violence." -- Bailey, Pearl

   "Violence does even justice unjustly." -- Carlyle, Thomas

   These violent delights have violent ends." -- Shakespeare, William

   "If you want peace, work for justice." -- Pope Paul VI

   All I have to add is, let us not mistake the boasts of boys for the
   wisdom of men.