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Anthony Galea

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Anthony’s Quotes

“What is the Third Estate? Everything. What has it been hitherto in the political order? Nothing. What does it desire to be? Something.”
― Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès

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“A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honourable place in history.”
― Kuan Yew Lee, The Wit and Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew

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“I think that the task of philosophy is not to provide answers, but to show how the way we perceive a problem can be itself part of a problem.”
― Slavoj Žižek

tags: philosophy, slavoj-zizek

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“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

tags: communism, nazism, post-factual, totalitarianism

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“As civilized human beings, we are the inheritors, neither of an inquiry about ourselves and the world, nor of an accumulating body of information, but of a conversation, begun in the primeval forests and extended and made more articulate in the course of centuries. It is a conversation which goes on both in public and within each of ourselves.”
― Michael Oakeshott

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