“Beauty is but skin deep, ugly to the bone. And when beauty fades away, ugly claims its own.”
― The Wedding
― The Wedding
“The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought.”
― The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
― The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind
“There can be no true friends without true enemies. Unless we hate what we are not, we cannot love what we are.”
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
― The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order
“历史者,所以说明社会进化的过程者也。”
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“If Men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and the next place, oblige it to control itself.”
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