Anzhel

“I AM’ the Perfect Harmony of my thought, feeling and action.” BENEDICTION: Out of Thy Pure Essence, we receive now and forever Thy Strength, Thy Wisdom, Thy Understanding Application of Thy Great and Marvelous Laws, that we may produce and maintain Thy Perfection in each Life, mind, body, home and world.”
― St. Germain, The "I am" discourses

“What, however, makes culture and ideology attractive? They become attractive when they are seen as rooted in material success and influence. Soft power is power only when it rests on a foundation of hard power. Increases in hard economic and military power produce enhanced self-confidence, arrogance, and belief in the superiority of one’s own culture or soft power compared to those of other peoples and greatly increase its attractiveness to other peoples. Decreases in economic and military power lead to self-doubt, crises of identity, and efforts to find in other cultures the keys to economic, military, and political success.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order

“Писна ми отговорността да се приписва единствено на генералите, единствено на богатите, единствено на могъщите. Какво сме ние в такъв случай? ЕГН-та, числа, които да манипулират, както им изнася, във войните и изборите, в разпространението на проклетите идеологии и църкви, и "изми" ли? Щом този куршум бива изобретен, произведен и изстрелян, вината е и наша, моя, твоя, негова, на всеки, който се подчинява и търпи. Твърдението, че народът е винаги жертва и че винаги е невинен, е лицемерно, лъжовно и обидно спрям достойнството на всеки мъж, на всяка жена, на всеки човек. Всеки един от тези хора има за дълг да избере и да реши за себе си. И не може да спре да избира и да решава само защото не е генерал, нито е богат, нито е властимащ.”
― Oriana Fallaci

“Ultimately there are but three systems of ethics, three conceptions of the ideal character and the moral life.

One is that of Buddha and Jesus, which stresses the feminine virtues, considers all men to be equally precious, resists evil only by returning good, identifies virtue with love, and inclines in politics to unlimited democracy.

Another is the ethic of Machiavelli and Nietzsche, which stresses the masculine virtues, accepts the inequality of men, relishes the risks of combat and conquest and rule, identifies virtue with power, and exalts an hereditary aristocracy.

A third, the ethic of Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle, denies the universal applicability of either the feminine or the masculine virtues; considers that only the informed and mature mind can judge, according to diverse circumstance, when love should rule, and when power; identifies virtue, therefore, with intelligence; and advocates a varying mixture of aristocracy and democracy in government.”
― Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers