Charles

“A liberla democracy that could fight a short and decisive war every generation or so to defend its own liberty and independence would be far healthier and more satisfied than one that experienced nothing but continuous peace.”
― Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man

“Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute. Avoid being scornful, both to others and to yourself. What seems to you bad within you will grow purer from the very fact of your observing it in yourself.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“No one is truly cosmopolitan who knows nothing of the world beyond the confines of his own generation. To live the life of today in its fulness, one must know the life of yesterday.”
― John Grier Hibben

“The socialist who is a christian is more to be dreaded than a socialist who is an atheist”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov