“A atitude de Vossa Excelência na política da República tem sido esperar a marcha dos acontecimentos, colocando-se à frente destes, para guiá-los”, disse Getúlio a Pinheiro, numa frase que tempos depois o brasilianista John W. F. Dulles
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“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.”
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
― Lady Chatterley's Lover
“If you can’t come into a room and tell right away who is for you and who is against you, you have no business in politics.”
― The Path to Power
― The Path to Power
“When meaning is drawn from killing, the risk is that more killing would bring more meaning.”
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
― Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
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“If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive an ideal society which men can reach if only they do what is necessary to attain it, then you and your followers must believe that no price can be too high to pay in order to open the gates of such a paradise. Only the stupid and malevolent will resist once certain simple truths are put to them. Those who resist must be persuaded; if they cannot be persuaded, laws must be passed to restrain them; if that does not work, then coercion, if need be violence, will inevitably have to be used—if necessary, terror, slaughter.”
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