Our side has agents. Their side has spies.
“You can tell a lot about a society by what it fears.”
“Espionage is the world's second oldest profession.”
“Many of our most serious conflicts are conflicts within ourselves. Those who suppose their judgements are always consistent are unreflective or dogmatic.”
“When we are shown scenes of starving children in Africa, with a call for us to do something to help them, the underlying ideological message is something like: "Don't think, don't politicize, forge...”
“Der Pragmatismus ersetzt uns alles, was frher die groen Ideen, die Ideologien und Religionen, der Glaube an Friede, Menschenrechte und Demokratie zu bieten hatten. Der Pragmatismus hlt uns davon ab...”
“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
“So it is the human condition that to wish for the greatness of one's fatherland is to wish evil to one's neighbors. The citizen of the universe would be the man who wishes his country never to be e...”
“Patriotism is nationalism, and always leads to war.”
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”
“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,00...”