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A quotation from Russell, Bertrand

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or governmental opinion, is to be treated as infallible, and such a way of feeling, if it is general, makes both moral and intellectual progress impossible.

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949)

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Authority and the Individual, Lecture 4 (1949) - Russell, Bertrand | WIST Quotations

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him. If a man has not this quality, he will feel that majority opinion, or...

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Show me the Asian, African or Afroasiatic equivalent to #Beethoven or #Mozart. No such non-Indo-European equivalent exists.

Then of course there's Socrates, Marcus Aurelius, Alexander, Gustavus Adolphus, Michelangelo, De Vinci, Newton, Monet, van Gogh, James Watt, Adam Smith, Nikolaus Otto, von Braun, Babbage, Jack Kilby, Chaucer, Dante & Tolstoy to name a few.

Philosophy, statecraft, military strategy, engineering, science, mathematics, music, art, literature. All that's needed is cultural #confidence; people-group self-belief.

Beethoven's 7th Symphony
https://youtu.be/7MqrBauptrE

Mozart's Requiem in D minor
https://youtu.be/XmttZ-BnwaI

#culturalconfidence #westerncivilization #indoeuropean #europe #europeandiaspora #selfbelief #ascendent #uk #usa #nzl #aus #ca

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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation from Stewart, Potter

Censorship reflects a society’s lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Long ago, those who wrote our First Amendment charted a different course. They believed a society can be truly strong only when it is truly free. In the realm of expression, they put their faith, for better or for worse, in the enlightened choice of the people, free from the interference of a policeman’s intrusive thumb or a judge’s heavy hand. So it is that the Constitution protects coarse expression as well as refined, and vulgarity no less than elegance. A book worthless to me may convey something of value to my neighbor. In the free society to which our Constitution has committed us, it is for each to choose for himself.

Potter Stewart (1915-1985) US Supreme Court Justice (1959-81)
Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463, 498 (1966) [dissenting]

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Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463, 498 (1966) [dissenting] - Stewart, Potter | WIST Quotations

Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime. Long ago, those who wrote our First Amendment charted a different course. They believed a society can be truly strong only when it is truly...

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wist@diasp.org
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A quotation from Hogan, Robert

Narcissists seem brave, they radiate charismatic energy, and they self-promote like mad. The big thing for narcissists is that they interview very well. Search committees can’t get enough of these guys.

Robert Hogan (b. 1937) American psychologist
In Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door, ch. 6 (2014)

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WIST - Hogan, Robert | In Jeffrey Kluger, The Narcissist Next Door, ch. 6 (2014)

Narcissists seem brave, they radiate charismatic energy, and they self-promote like mad. The big thing for narcissists is that they interview very well. Search committees can't get enough of these guys.

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British PM #BorisJohnson narrowly survives #confidence #vote that could've ousted him from power

source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/british-prime-minister-boris-johnson-wins-confidence-vote-rcna32069

The British prime minister narrowly won a confidence vote among his own lawmakers Monday, leaving him damaged but still in power and his ruling Conservative Party bitterly divided over its once-talismanic leader who has become plagued by #scandal.

#partygate #UK #politics #news

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson narrowly survives confidence vote

The vote exposed the sheer level of anger within the ruling Conservative Party over the 'partygate' scandal.

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