Benjamin Wittes Quotes

Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.

Benjamin Wittes

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• Learn to lead in a nourishing manner. Learn to lead without being possessive. Learn to be helpful without taking the credit. Learn to lead without coercion.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Learn
  • Lead
  • Nourishing

• If our economic system is to survive, there has to be a better distribution of wealth ... we can't have a system where some people live in superfluous, inordinate wealth, while others live in abject deadening poverty.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Wealth
  • Economic System

• The violence in society, I'm afraid, is perpetrated by the people at the top.

  

  S. Robson Walton
  • People
  • Society
  • Violence

• If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Dangerous
  • Dreaming
  • All The Time

• A company's ability to respond to an unplanned event, good or bad is a prime indicator of its ability to compete.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Event
  • Compete
  • Indicator

• It seems to me that the contrast between adjacent syllables has lessened and the result is an over-reliance on enjambment. Now enjambment is a fine, intellectually strong aid, but like all such things it becomes tiresome and calls too much attention to itself.

  

  Christopher Logue
  • Enjambment
  • Strong
  • Tiresome

• I'm happy when I see a girl on the bus, or on the street, and start wondering about her. Sometimes I see a woman and I ask myself: Who is she? You want to know what her job is. Who she is? You start fantasizing. There's a certain aura, a certain charm that we try to reproduce.

  

  Christophe Lemaitre
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Woman

• Nature has no opinion, no agenda. Nature provides a playing field, a not particularly level one, on which we compete with all creatures great and small. It’s more that nature’s playing field is full of traps.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Nature
  • Compete
  • Traps

• The psychedelic mind is a higher dimensional mind, it is not fit for three dimensional space time.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Fit

• I try to stay in decent shape.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Try
  • Shape
  • Decent

• With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small way, if only in one small corner of the world, amongst the men and women I love, then I shall count myself blessed, and blessed, and blessed, and the work goes on.

  

  William Morris
  • World
  • Men
  • Blessed

• When something's over with me, it's over.

  

  Willard Scott
  • Over

• This is the century of fear.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Fear
  • Century

• I'm always amazed to hear my more conservative colleagues talking about how they care about life. They're pro-life, but when it comes down to safe work environments that allow for unions, being able to pay for child care, having family leave - they don't care about any of that. That's where I argue that they're not pro-life, they're pro-birth.

  

  Nina Turner
  • Care
  • Conservative
  • Colleagues

• You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.

  

  Paul Claudel
  • Poet
  • Explain
  • Inexplicable

• Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

  

  Aron Nimzowitsch
  • Position
  • Attack
  • Prudent

• The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Change
  • Theologies
  • Roman Catholic Church

• The war against Russia will be such that it cannot be conducted in a knightly fashion. This struggle is one of ideologies and racial differences and will have to be conducted with unprecedented, unmerciful and unrelenting harshness.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Fashion
  • Ideologies
  • Harshness

• We form ourselves within the vocabularies that we did not choose, and sometimes we have to reject those vocabularies, or actively develop new ones.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Choose
  • Develop
  • Vocabularies

• Political as well as religious cults can be distinguished from legitimate organizations by their use of doublethink. Though political cults espouse extremist ideologies, not extremist theologies, operationally they are virtually identical to religious cults, and they also go to great lengths to control the vocabularies of their members.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Ideologies
  • Cults
  • Vocabularies