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Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

by Simon Sinek (Goodreads Author)

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Jan 20, 2024 12:33PM

“Because the horror of Communism, Stalinism, is not that bad people do bad things — they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great."

[Six Questions for Slavoj Žižek, Harper's Magazine, November 11, 2011]”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: brainwashing, communism, evil, society, stalinism, totalitarianism

214 likes

“I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.”
― Grant Morrison, Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human

tags: cold-war, comics, exploration, humanity, war

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“The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
― H.L. Mencken

tags: christianity, communism, religion

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“There is no monopoly of common sense
On either side of the political fence
We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology
Believe me when I say to you
I hope the Russians love their children too
[...]
There's no such thing as a winnable war
It's a lie we don't believe anymore ..."

(The Russians)”
― Sting, The Dream of the Blue Turtles

tags: cold-war, common-sense, communalities, ideology, peace, war

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