8 ideas
541 | Virtue comes more from habit than character [Critias] |
23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
1743 | The greatest deterrence for injustice is if uninjured parties feel as much indignation as those who are injured [Solon, by Diog. Laertius] |
23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |
542 | Fear of the gods was invented to discourage secret sin [Critias] |