Misli poznatih mislilaca - II

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Jedna od tajni života je da iskreno budete ono što jeste. Kako drugi žele da vas vide, i kakvi biste jednog dana mogli postati, to su fantazije.
Da bi se iskreno bili ono što jeste, treba da se odreknete svoje iluzije i da se hrabro suočičte sa sadašnjošću.

Bil Purdin
 
Na svetu postoje dve vrste ljudi. Oni kojima su drugi potrebni, koje drugi mogu da razonode, da ih zabave, da ih odmore a koje samoća zamara, iscrpljuje i uništava kao penjanje na ogromni glečer ili prelazak preko pustinje; i oni koje, naprotiv, drugi umaraju, dosađuju im, smetaju im, iscrpljuju ih, dok ih samoća umiruje i osvežava ih mirom u nezavisnosti i mašti njihovih misli.

Gi de Mopasan
 
"Upoznaj samoga sebe", rekao je stari filozof.
"Poboljšaj sebe", kaže novi.
Naš veliki cilj u vremenu nije gubljenje vremena na naše strasti i poklone oko nebitnih stvari
koje moramo ostaviti iza sebe, nego da kultivišemo u nama sve ono što nosimo napred .

Edvard Bulver-Liton
 
I stand for the square deal. But when I say I am for the square deal, I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service. . . .

The true conservative is the one who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man's making shall be the servant and not the

master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have themselves called into being. . . .

The absence of effective State, and especially national, restraint upon unfair money getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which it is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows. . .

We grudge no man a fortune in civil life if it is honorably obtained and well used. It is not enough that it should have been gained without doing damage to the country. We should permit it to be gained only so long as the gaining represents benefits to the community. This, I know, implies a policy of far more active government interference with social and economic conditions in this country than we have yet had, but I think we have got to face the fact that such an increase in governmental control is now necessary. . . .

The National Government belongs to the whole American people, and where the whole American people are interested, that interest can be guarded only by the National Government. The betterment which we seek must be accomplished, I believe, mainly through the National

Government. The American people are right in demanding that New Nationalism without which we cannot cope with new problems. The New Nationalism puts national need before sectional or personal advantage. It is impatient of the utter confusion that results from local legislatures attempting to treat national issues as local issues. It is still more impatient of the impotence which springs from over-division of governmental powers, the impotence which makes it possible for

local selfishness or legal cunning, hired by wealthy special interest, to bring national activities to a deadlock. This New Nationalism regards the executive power as the steward of the public welfare. It

demands of the judiciary that it shall be interested primarily in human welfare rather than in property, just as it demands that the representative body shall represent all the people rather than any one class or section of the people. I believe in shaping the ends of government to protect property as well as human welfare. Normally, and in the long run, the ends are the same; but whenever the alternative must be faced, I am for men and not for property, as you were in the Civil War.

Theodore Roosevelt
 
Riziku zaostajanja ili riziku preticanja. Opasnostima što ih donosi moć, jednako kao i nemoć.
A pošto je inteligencija u prvom redu i funkcija i instrument nagona za održanjem, ona je uvek “poremećena”, kad god nas, gura u neprilike.

Borislav Pekić
 
Ako hoćeš da znaš kakva je država i njena uprava, i kakva im je budućnost, gledaj samo da saznaš koliko u toj zemlji ima čestitih i nevinih ljudi po zatvorima,
a koliko zlikovaca i prestupnika na slobodi. To će ti najbolje kazati.

Ivo Andrić
 
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