Nelson

“No matter how good a President you are, if the historian is hostile to you, he will emphasize your errors and break down your merits... without departing from the facts.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Who is this historian who can say that he's telling the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth. Nobody, because you're human.”
― Teodoro A. Agoncillo, Talking History: Conversations with Teodoro A. Agoncillo

“Anti-Noble morality is the product of ressentiment. The Anti-Noble man feels trapped. He believes that his happiness and fulfillment have been thwarted by others. He resents them for having better opportunities, for having greater wealth, for having more power, for using that power to coerce or oppress him. The Noble man views people, actions and circumstances as either being positive or negative, “good” or “un-good” in relationship to his own interests, subjectively. Instead of recognizing the tragic and unfair nature of human existence, the Anti-Noble man constructs a system of morality that he convinces himself is objective, rather than subjective — as it truly is.”
― Jack Donovan, A More Complete Beast

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte