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And yet—we flatter ourselves, in the democracies of the West, if we trace our roots back to Athens alone. We are also, for good as well as ill, the heirs of the Roman Republic.
Flattery
“Golden Krishna, an expert in user experience who currently works on design strategy at Google, astutely pointed out during one of our conversations that the only people who refer to their customers as “users” are drug dealers—and technologists.”
― Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self
― Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive & Creative Self
“The state had the right to know everything, for the Romans believed that even “personal tastes and appetites should be subject to surveillance and review.”4 It was knowledge, intrusive knowledge, that provided the Republic with its surest foundations.”
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
“But this was an age when a lie was not a lie if a man had the audacity to keep asserting the lie was true.”
― The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
― The Storm Before the Storm: The Beginning of the End of the Roman Republic
“Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. Caesar, Gallic Wars
Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories”
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories”
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
“Every member of every tribe was entitled to his vote, but since this had to be delivered in person at the Ovile the practical effect was to ensure that only the wealthiest out-of-towner could afford to travel to Rome to exercise his right. Inevitably, this served to skew the voting in favor of the rich.”
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
― Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic
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