Ben Macintyre on elevation
Ben Macintyre8 quotes“To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace.”
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Deception is a sort of seduction. In love and war, adultery and espionage, deceit can only succeed if the deceived party is willing, in some way, to be deceived.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre Libraries are not just for reading in, but for sociable thinking, exploring, exchanging ideas and falling in love. They were never silent.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre I love telling stories, and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre What if?’ history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day – including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery – believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre Technology will not change that, for even in the starchiest heyday of Victorian self-improvement, libraries were intended to be meeting places of the mind, recreational as well as educational.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre The broad outlines of the Double Cross deception have been known since 1972, when Sir John Masterman, the former chairman of the double agent committee, controversially published his account of the operation in defiance of official secrecy.
Ben MacintyreBen Macintyre If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.
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Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldFrancois de La Rochefoucauld Religion always remains higher than everyday life. In order to make the elevation towards religion easier for people, religion must be able to alter its forms in relation to the consciousness of modern man.
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