“Writers the most learned, the most accurate in details, and the soundest in tendency, frequently fall into a habit which can neither be cured nor pardoned—the habit of making history into the proof of their theories.John Emerich Edward Dalberg (Lord Acton)
“All genuine political theories presuppose man to be evil, i.e., by no means an unproblematic but a dangerous and dynamic being.Carl Schmitt
“I will devote myself sincerely and without reservation to the general demolition of my opinions.René Descartes
“There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.Charles Baudelaire