Aphorisms

[Héctor]

The great wars of the present are effects caused by the study of history. (Nietzsche)

[Héctor]

Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies. (Nietzsche)

[Héctor]

Madness is rare in individuals -- but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule: and for that reason the historians have not spoken until now of madness. But sometime the doctors will write the history. (Nietzsche)

[Héctor]

"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

[Héctor]

"The cowardice is the mother of cruelty."

Montaigne

[Héctor]

The Devil has no horns or uniform, does not attack anyone during sleep, but on the contrary, is a fierce worker who encourages bureaucracy, ignorance, misinformation. The devil learns from humans and not the other way around.

Norman Mailer

[Héctor]

The total amount of sensitivity has increased considerably in the world of culture. In today's world it would be more difficult to publicly condemn to the blaze to a single man than to unchain a world war.

Elías Canetti, The Conscience of Words

[Héctor]

Grand politics always solely involves balancing acts. Keeping the balance means not avoiding any necessary struggles, but not provoking any superfluous struggle. It also means not giving up in the race to prevent ecological destruction and general demoralization.

Peter Sloterdijk, Anger and Time

[Héctor]

Fascism is, really, contempt. Inversely, all form of contempt, if it intervenes in politics, prepares or sets up fascism.

Albert Camus, The Rebel

[Héctor]

When all are military, crime consists in not to kill if the order so demands it.

Albert Camus

[Héctor]

Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen.

Norman Mailer (1923-2007)