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  • #1
    Woodrow Wilson
    “Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.”
    Woodrow Wilson, New Freedom

  • #2
    Dobrica Ćosić
    “Kakvi smo mi to ljudi? Kakav smo mi to narod?... Između Azije i Evrope, na granici vera, carstava, ginuli smo nerazumno, više za druge nego za sebe... i ne stekosmo ni jednog vernog prijatelja. Taj nesrećni i prokleti srpski narod! U Evropi smo danas jedina država koja nema nijednog istinskog prijatelja. Nijednog! Ali nas Bog opet sačuva. Sačuva nas zbog nečeg. I za nešto.”
    Dobrica Ćosić, Vreme smrti, knjiga I

  • #3
    Slobodan Jovanović
    “Uzimajući ga u njegovom najpotpunijem i najizrazitijem vidu, poluintelektualac je čovek koji je uredno, pa možda, čak, i s vrlo dobrim uspehom svršio školu, ali u pogledu kulturnog obrazovanja i moralnog vaspitanja nije stekao skoro ništa. Bilo usled njegove urođene nesposobnosti ili zbog mana školskog sistema, nije dobio podstreka za duhovno samorazvijanje. On uopšte duhovne vrednosti ne razume i ne ceni. Sve ceni prema tome, koliko šta doprinosi uspehu u životu, a uspeh uzima u „čaršijskom” smislu, dakle sasvim materijalistički. S ostalim duhovnim vrednostima odbacuje i moralnu disciplinu, ali ne sasvim, jer prekršaji te discipline povlače krivičnu odgovornost. Ipak i u moralnom, kao i u kulturnom pogledu, on je u osnovi ostao primitivac. Neomekšan kulturom, a sa olabavlјenom moralnom kočnicom ima sirove snage napretek. Školska diploma, kao ulaznica u krug inteligencije, dala mu je preterano visoko mišlјenje o sebi samom.

    U društvenoj utakmici taj diplomirani primitivac bori se bez skrupula, a s punim uverenjem da traži samo svoje pravo koje mu je škola priznala. On potiskuje suparnike nemilosrdno kao da nisu živa bića nego materijalne prepone. On je dobar „laktaš” – izraz koji je prodro u opštu upotrebu jednovremeno s pojavom poluintelektualaca. Pretpostavimo da se u njemu probudila politička ambicija i da je uspeo postati ministar. Taj položaj mogao je da ugrabi samo kroz silno guranje i strmoglavu jagmu i zato će smatrati da je to sada nešto „njegovo”. Iz te svoje tekovine ili bolјe reći plena, gledaće da izvuče što više ličnog ćara. Biće „korupcionaš”, ali neće biti sasvim svestan toga fakta, toliko će mu to izgledati prirodno i na svom mestu. Jedan poluintelektualac, kad je čuo da se govori o njegovoj ostavci, rekao je: „Ko je lud, da se odvaja od punog čanka?!” Nјemu je izgledalo nepojmlјivo da se čovek ne koristi ministarskim položajem, kao što bi bilo nepojmlјivo da čovek kraj punog čanka ostane gladan.

    Politička ambicija jednog poluintelektualca zapravo i nije politička. Ona se sastoji samo u tome, da se čovek kroz politiku obogati i da na visokim položajima progospoduje. On ne zna ni za kakve više i opštije cilјeve. Tek kad poluintelektualac izbije na vrhunac političkog uspeha, vidi se kako je on moralno zakržlјao. Pored poluintelektualca koji je uspeo, postoji i poluintelektualac koji nije uspeo. Već pravi intelektualac, nezaposlen ili zapostavlјen, gotov je opozicionar. Poluintelektualac u takvom položaju tim je opasniji, što ne zna ni za kakve moralne obzire koji bi njegovo ogorčenje ublažavali. To nije bilo slučajno da su mnogi ozlojeđeni poluintelektualci otišli u komuniste. Poluintelektualac je bolesna društvena pojava, koja je obelodanila dve stvari:
    1. Da je kulturni obrazac potrebna dopuna nacionalnog i političkog obrasca, što se naročito oseća onda kada uticaj ta dva obrasca prestane da slabi;
    2. Da škola koja se ograničava na davanje znanja, bez uporednog vaspitavanja karaktera, nije u stanju da spreči pojavu takvog društvenog tipa kao što je poluintelektualac.”
    Slobodan Jovanović, Kulturni obrazac: jedan prilog za proučavanje srpskog nacionalnog karaktera

  • #4
    “Yet it is also a tonic and an antidote to dullness to be with the Serbs. They possess the irresponsible gaiety that we traditionally connect with the Irish, with whom they have often been compared. Other less convenient sides of the Irish character are also typical in the Serbs, such as a cheerful contempt for punctuality in daily life and a ready willingness, arising clearly from politeness and good nature, to make promises that are not always fulfilled. But perhaps the most pronounced of these similarities is to be found in the songs of Serbia and Ireland. With both peoples the historic songs about the past are songs of sorrow, or noble struggles against overwhelming odds, of failure redeemed by unconquerable resolve. There is nothing strange in this combination of laughing gaiety and profound melancholy. It is often only those who are truly capable of the one emotion who also have the faculty for the other.”
    R.G.D. Laffan

  • #5
    Jovan Cvijić
    “Mi nesrazmjerno više govorimo, nego što radimo. Mnogi imaju tu osobinu da misle da su uradili, kad su govorili. Dalje, mahom više polažu na pravo da govore no na pravo da rade. Ja sam često pravio opservaciju, da je mnogim našim ljudima glavno da se izgovore, a posebno da nekoga predstave u rđavoj svjetlosti i da naprave dosetku na njegov račun, a razuman čovek može voditi i raspraviti stvar kako hoće – onima prvima, izgleda nije do toga toliko stalo; glavno je da su oni riječima dosta učinili i sebe zadovoljili. Možda u tu grupu spada i to, što su mnogi naši zadovoljni, kad su ustanovili načela rada ili upravo napisali programe, zadovoljni su toliko, da posle ne misle ozbiljno o akciji i konsekvencijama, koje su upravo sve, prvo je bez drugog besposlica.”
    Jovan Cvijic

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    “Моји српски назори су моја мајка, моје родно место, моја српска православна црква и мој српски језик. Ко од мене очекује да се одрекнем својих српских назора, то је исто као да ми одузима живот.”
    Михајло Пупин, Са пашњака до научењака

  • #8
    Albert Camus
    “The real 19th century prophet was Dostoevsky, not Karl Marx.”
    Albert Camus

  • #9
    “In the American oligarchy, the President is a temporary chairman of the board who is there to take responsibility for actions decided in private sessions. He is there to sell policy more than to make it.”
    Diana Johnstone, Queen of Chaos: The Misadventures of Hillary Clinton

  • #10
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
    Cicero

  • #11
    Rebecca West
    “I find that this always happens when I try to interrupt Slavs who are quarreling. They draw all the energy out of the air by the passion of their debate, so that anything outside its orbit can only flutter trivially.”
    Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

  • #12
    Ivo Andrić
    “Toliko je u životu bilo stvari kojih smo se bojali. A nije trebalo. Trebalo je živeti”
    Ivo Andrić

  • #13
    Nikola Tesla
    “Of all things, I liked books best.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #14
    Nikola Tesla
    “Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents.”
    Nikola Tesla

  • #15
    “The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist.”
    Christopher McQuarrie, Usual Suspects

  • #16
    Richard Munson
    “He was raised a Serb into an Orthodox family in a region dominated by Croats and Roman Catholics. His father instilled religion while Tesla embraced science. This inventor craved isolation but could be a master showman. He enjoyed lavish living but walked away from lucrative contracts. He won the “War of the Currents” but died almost penniless and feeding pigeons.”
    Richard Munson, Tesla: Inventor of the Modern

  • #17
    Miloš Crnjanski
    “Čovek koji manje živi, a više misli, postaje sve hladniji i, kao neki kristal, tvrđi. Postaje irealan. Propušta svetlost i ona se u njemu lomi kao u nekoj prizmi.

    A poneki pesnik od toga poludi.”
    Miloš Crnjanski, Kod Hiperborejaca I

  • #18
    “There is a natural order. The way things are meant to be. An order that says that the good guys always win. That you die when it's your time, or you have it coming. That the ending is always happy, if only for someone else. Now at some point it became clear to us that our path had been chosen and we had nothing to offer the world. Our options narrowing down to petty crime or minimum wage. So, we stepped off the path, and went looking for the fortune that we knew was looking for us.”
    Christopher McQuarrie

  • #19
    Justin Popović
    “All Truths of Orthodoxy emerge from one truth and converge in one truth, infinite and eternal. That truth is the God-man Christ. If you experience Orthodoxy to its limit, you will inevitably discover that its kernel is the God-man Christ. In fact, all the truths of Orthodoxy are nothing other than different aspects of the one Truth - the God-man Christ.”
    St. Justin Popovich

  • #20
    Nebojša Pajkić
    “Толеранција је одсуство интереса за истину. Када се износе неистине, ја не могу да будем толерантан.”
    Nebojša Pajkić

  • #21
    Oliver Stone
    “Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian fascism, and Japanese militarism. The rest of the world remembers it as the bloodiest war in human history. By the time it was over, more than 60 million people lay dead, including 27 million Russians, between 10 million and 20 million Chinese, 6 million Jews, 5.5 million Germans, 3 million non-Jewish Poles, 2.5 million Japanese, and 1.5 million Yugoslavs. Austria, Great Britain, France, Italy, Hungary, Romania, and the United States each counted between 250,000 and 333,000 dead.”
    Oliver Stone, The Untold History of The United States

  • #22
    Oliver Stone
    “The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other religions were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.”
    Oliver Stone, The Untold History of the United States

  • #23
    “What pleasure in this life remains unmarked by sorrow? What glory can endure upon this earth unchanged? All is feebler than a shadow, more deceptive than a dream; for death in a single moment takes all things away. But in the light of Thy countenance, O Christ, and in the joy of Thy beauty, give rest to those whom Thou hast chosen, for Thou lovest mankind...”
    St John Damascus

  • #24
    Tikhon of Zadonsk
    “The sword of truth is above you, beneath you is hell ready to slay you; before you is death, behind you is a multitude of your sins, to the right and left of you is a crowd of vicious enemies. Can you possibly be indolent?”
    St. Tikhon of Zadonsk

  • #25
    “[A]s the Fathers tell us, the souls of the dead remember everything that happened here -thoughts, words, desires- and nothing can be forgotten. But, as it says in the Psalm, 'In that day all their schemes shall be brought to nothing.' The schemes he speaks of are those of this world, about houses and possessions, parents and children, and business transactions. All these things are destroyed immediately when the soul passes out of the body, none of all this is remembered or considered. But what he did against virtue or against his evil passions, he remembers, and nothing of this is lost. And if a man helped somone or was helped by someone else, this is remembered as is the persons concerned, or if he injured someone, or was injured by someone, all this is remembered. In fact, the soul loses nothing that it did in this world but remembers everything at its exit from this body more clearly and distinctly once freed from the earthliness of the body.”
    St. Dorotheos

  • #26
    Thaddeus of Vitovnica
    “We have very little faith in the Lord, very little trust. If we trusted the Lord as much as we trust a friend when we ask him to do something for us, neither we as individuals nor our whole country would suffer so much.”
    Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica, Our Thoughts Determine Our Lives: The Life and Teachings of Elder Thaddeus of Vitovnica

  • #27
    Smedley D. Butler
    “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”
    Smedley D. Butler, War Is a Racket

  • #28
    Ernest Hemingway
    “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
    Ernest Hemingway, The Garden of Eden

  • #29
    Marcus Aurelius
    “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
    Marcus Aurelius , Meditations

  • #30
    Marcus Aurelius
    “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
    Marcus Aurelius, Meditations



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