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Ce carnet m'a été offert par madame Helen Drachkovitch le 22 septembre 2005 251-255 ci-dessous |
 Des citations qui ont peut-être accompagné Milorad pendant des années, ou chaque jour de l'année, il y en a 395 ! Elles sont transcrites en commençant par la fin pour avoir du nouveau en haut de la page ... | ||
La lecture des citations contenues dans ce carnet provoque des réflexions et des discussions qu'on peut suivre ici 
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| 244 | "The consciousness of shipwreck, of being cast away, when it becomes the truth of life, becomes also the salvation. For that reson I believe only in the thoughts of castaways. It is necessary to hail the classics before a tribunal of castaways so that they may answer there certain peremptory questions with reference to the authentic life." Ortega y Gasset | |||
| 245 | "La France d'avant la Révolution n'était point malheureuse. Elle avait sujet de se plaindre, non de se révolter." Pierre Gaxotte | |||
| 246 | "Le secret d'ennuyer est celui de tout dire." Voltaire | |||
| 247 | "Il n'y a qu'une chose qui est pire que la démocratie, c'est le manque de démocratie." W.Churchill | |||
| 248 | "Ne soyons ni dirigistes ni anti-dirigistes, soyons intelligents." Paul Reynaud | |||
| 249 | La fédération nécessaire et suffisante. "L'Europe doit se fédérer, mais pas trop. Ses nations doivent renoncer à une part de leur souveraineté, mais pas plus qu'il ne le faut. Le nationalisme, se dépassant pour atteindre un plan plus haut, doit apprendre à se considérer comme un régionalisme; mais l'amour de ces provinces d'Europe que nous appelons nations doit - une fois purifié - demeurer l'un des biens les plus précieux de notre Europe. L'Europe doit devenir une, mais cette Europe unie doit donner à ses nations et à ses citoyens le sentiment d'une liberté plus grande que celle dont ils jouissaient dans l'Europe anarchique et divisée du passé." Salvador de Madariaga (Traduit de "Europe, a unit of human Culture" brochure publiée par le Mouvement Européen) | |||
| 250 | "Personne ne peut prévoir quel sera le centre de forces autour duquel graviteront les affaires humaines dans les années à venir et c'est pourquoi le monde se résigne à s'installer bassement dans le provisoire. Les années passant, il faut craindre que les Européens ne s'habituent définitivement à la vie diminuée à laquelle ils se trouvent actuellement réduits, craindre qu'ils de s'habituent à ne plus exercer leur pouvoir sur le monde et sur eux-mêmes. Si l'on en arrivait là, nos vertus et capacités européennes auraient tôt fait de s'envoler en fumée..." Ortega y Gasset | |||
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| 251 | A propos de la C.E.D. "Le passé presque aboli dans l'ordre scientifique et technique pèse terriblement sur les sociétés. Il grève notre destinée d'une quantité d'hypothèques historiques, et nous ne pouvons nous représenter ce qui est, tel qu'il est, sans mêler au réel une foule de notions, d'appréhensions, de répugnances, d'associations, d'évaluations, de formules et de tendances dans lesquelles et par lesquelles agit impérieusement ce qui ne se représentera plus..." Paul Valéry, 1933 | |||
| 252 | Deux leçons de l'histoire " Ce serait un formidable renversement du cours de l'histoire que la formation de l'unité européenne. Il faudrait surmonter les routines des esprits et des coeurs. Tous les anniversaires que nous fêtons sont ceux de victoires sur nos futurs concitoyens, tous nous deuils nous ont été infligés par eux. C'est eux qui jouent le rôle du "méchant" dans les livres et les jeux d'enfants. De tels obstacles n'existaient point lors de la fondation des Etats-Unis d'Amérique. Il en existait de semblables, quoique moindres , en Grèce : et la Grèce ne s'est pas unie. C'est une première leçon de l'histoire. La seconde, c'est que la Grèce a péri." Bertrand de Jouvenel. | |||
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| 253 | "The genius of constitutions, written and unwritten alike, lies in usage." Walton H. Hamilton | |||
| 254 | "Governments, like clocks, go from the motion men give them; and as governments are made and moved by man, so by them they are ruined too. Therefore governments rather depend upon men than men upon govenments." William Penn | |||
| 255 | "Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence ?" Abraham Lincoln | |||
| 256 | "I felt that measures otherwise unconstitutional might become lawful by
becoming indispensable to the preservation of the Constitution through the preservation of the nation." Lincoln (1862) | |||
| 257 | "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." Edmund Burke | |||
| 258 | "I quote others only the better to express myself." Montaingne | |||
| 259 | "Originality is nothing but judicious imitation." Voltaire | |||
| 260 | "Non-intervention is a politiacal term meaning virtually the same thins as intervention." Talleyrand | |||
| 261 | "Democracy is the recurent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time." E.B.White "The Wild Flag", 1946 | |||
| 262 | "L'humanité est tombée si bas qu'elle ne peut que remonter." S.de Madariaga | |||
| 263 | "When I pay taxes I buy civilization." Justice Holmes | |||
| 264 | "Il faut juger à froid et agir à chaud. Mais rien de plus rare à obtenir des circonstances et de soi." Paul Valéry | |||
| 264b | "Nationalism may be an out-of-date doctrine for many in this world; for us of Asia and Africa, it isi the mainspring of our efforts. Understand that, and you have the key to much of post-war history." Sukarno in Washington, D.C. (before U.S. Congress on May 17, 1956) | |||
| 265 | "In Western societies change is gradual and evolutionnary, and not always either forseable or even under political control." C.A.R.Crosland | |||
| 266 | "The sphere of individual action is not to be regarded as ethically inferior to that of social duty. On the contrary, some of the best of human activities are, at least in feeling, rather personal than social ... Prophets, mystics, poets, scientific discoverers are men whose lives are dominated by a vision. It is such men who put into the world the things that we most value, not only in religion, in art and in science, but also in our feeling towards our neighbour, for improvements in the sense of social obligation as in everything else, have been largely due to solitary men whose thoughts and emotions were not subject to the dominion of the herd." Bertrand Russell | |||
| 267 | "We are all civilized people, which means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour." Tennessee Williams | |||
| 268 | "En politique, il faut toujours laisser un os à ronger aux frondeurs." Joubert | |||
| 269 | "Nous avons assisté en Hongrie, [1956] non à une fin, mais à un commencement;non à la dernière révolte pré-marxiste, mais à la première révolte post-marxiste." Thierry Maulnier | |||
| 270 | "Un laboratoire édifié sur un vaste cimetière." T.G.Masaryk | |||
| 271 | "Corruption optimi pessima." (rien n'est pire que la corruption de ce qui fut excellent) Adage romain | |||
| 272 | "I believe in democracy because it releases the energies of every human being." Woodrow Wilson | |||
| 273 | "Ideas are inherently conservative. They yield not to the attack of other ideas but to the massive onslaught of circumstance with wich they cannot contend." J.K.Galbraith | |||
| 274 | "Ne désire pas pour autrui ce que tu désires pour toi-même, car vous pourriez ne pas avoir les mêmes gôuts." Bernard Shaw | |||
| 275 | "J'excuse l'humain par l'animal." Jean Rostand | |||
| 276 | Lloyd George définissait le régime parlementaire : des experts conduits par des amateurs | |||
| 277 | "Political power will, in fact, belong to the owners of economic power." Harold Laski (1937) | |||
| 278 | "Whatever the modes of economic production, economic power will, in fact, belong to the owners of political power." C.A.R.Crosland (1956) | |||
| 279 | "The ownership of the means of production decides much less than the character of the political system." C.A.R.Crosland | |||
| 280 | "Socialism is a word the connotation of which varies, not only from generation to generation but from decade to decade." R.H.Tawney | |||
| 281 | "... now the certainty and simplicity are gone; and everything has become complicated and ambiguous." C.A.R.Crosland | |||
| 282 | "Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of a brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or to die." George Washington (August 1776) | |||
| 283 | "Civilizations die in trut, only by scuicide." James Burnham | |||
| 284 | "In all totalitarianism there goes hand in hand a great passion for social reform with a complete disinterest in the need of individual reform." Fulton J. Sheen | |||
| 285 | "National interest, not sentiment or emotion, forms the normal basis for policy; and nations must not be expected to ignore the most vital of their own interests in deference to international obligation." George F. Kennan (january 1959) | |||
| 286 | "The most serious problems of modern life only begin with the achievement of material plenty." George F. Kennan | |||
| 287 | "Wishful thinking has slain its millions." (Cité par) Summer Welles | |||
| 288 | "Never underestimate people's intelligence; never overestimate their information Lincoln | |||
| 289 | "Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions then ruined by too confident a security." Edmund Burke | |||
| 290 | "One spy in the right place is worth 20,000 men in the field." Napoleon | |||
| 291 | "...by power we mean the power of man over the minds of other men ..." Hans Morgenthau | |||
| 292 | "After a thousand years, religion was at length released from the obligation to practice cruelty on principle, by the admission that it is the incorrigible nature of man to hold different opinions on speculative subjects." G.M.Trevelyan:"Historyof England" | |||
| 293 | "The boat of love has crashed on the rocks of everyday life." Mayakovsky (his death note) | |||
| 294 | "Party divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are things inseparable from free government"(1769) "Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavors the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed"(1170) Edmund Burke | |||
| 295 | "Ours is a country of beginnings, of projects, of vast designs and expectations. It has no past: all has an onward and prospective look." Ralph Waldo Emerson | |||
| 296 | Third Fisherman: Master, I marvel how the fishes live
in the sea. First Fisherman: Why, as men do a-land; the great
ones eat up the little ones", Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Shakespeare | |||
| 297 | "The eyes of Europe are fixed upon us: she demands of us a living example of freedom." Richard Henry Lee (1776) | |||
| 298 | "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise -- with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves" Lincoln (1862) | |||
| 299 | " The creation of America was a deliberate act of applied intelligence." E.J. Hughes (1989) | |||
| 300 | "... in nations as with men, the easiest excuse for a failure of intelligence is a profession of virtue." E.J. Hughes | |||
| 301 | "In the beginning of all illusions, there always is the word." E.J. Hughes | |||
| 302 | "It would be wise for nations to suspect some fault in themselves when they find they are generally worse thought of than they think they deserve." John Stuart Mill | |||
| 303 | "Man is an institution-building animal" John Dos Passos | |||
| 304 | "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". George Santayana | |||
| 305 | "It is one thing to write like a poet, and another thing to write like an historian. The poet can tell or sing of things, not as they were but as they ought to have been, whereas the historian must describe them, not as they ought to have been, but as they were, without exaggerating or suppressing the truth in any particular." Cervantes | |||
| 306 | "The knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, is an instrument of action, and a power theat goes to the making of the furure." Lord Acton | |||
| 307 | History is only in part a matter of "fact". Collect the "facts" of the French Revolution ! You must go down to Hell and up to Heaven fo fetch them ... ." G.M. Trevelyan | |||
| 308 | "I call revolution the conversion of all hearts and the rising of all hands in behalf of the honour of man". Karl Marx | |||
| 309 | 1914: " ... the end of the epoh of the middle class humanism" Thomas Mann : Doctor Faustus | |||
| 310 | "I have often observed in myself that my will has decided even before my thinking is over". Bismarck | |||
| 311 | "Silence is the most convenient form of lie". Dmitri Granin-a "A Personal Opinion" | |||
| 312 | "L'avenir dira s'il n'eut pas mieux valu que Jean-Jacques Rousseau ni moi-même n'eussions jamais existé". Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène | |||
| 313 | "... the martyr without publicity dies the death of the sparrow, which may be recorded in heaven but which is certainly not recorded elsewhere". Edward Crankshaw | |||
| 314 | "Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort". Ortega y Gasset | |||
| 315 | "Sortie vibrante de l'Encyclopédie, ce grand laboratoire des idées du XVIIIe siècle, elle [la Rév.Fr.] n'avait plus en 1789, qu'à prendre matériellement possession d'un domaine déjà conquis moralement". Louis Blanc | |||
| 316 | "Either America ot the hope of the world or it is nothing". Father Bruckberger | |||
| 317 | "The road is always better than the inn". Cervantes | |||
| 318 | "He who seeks in liberty anything other than liberty itself is destined for servitude". Alexis de Tocqueville | |||
| 319 | "Popular revolutions have no more implacable enemies than the men they raised to power". H. de Balzac | |||
| 320 | ... | |||
| 321 | "We have lost our sense of indignation". Edward Hunter (1960) | |||
| 322 | "The masses always take the form which the creative minorities controlling societies choose to give them". Karl Menheim | |||
| 323 | "Brainwashing : softening up plus indoctrination". Edward Hunter (1960) | |||
| 324 | "Down to the middle of the seventeenth century the Western world was as authoritarian and totalitarian as any Communist country is in our time". Arnold Toynbee | |||
| 325 | "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils;
for time is the greatest innovator". Francis Bacon | |||
| 326 | "I consider this the most dangerous period in all human history, because heretofore nature has controlled man in the last analysis, but now man has learned to control elemental forces of nature - before he has learned to control himself". Albert Schweitzer | |||
| 327 | "What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves or it wil not be yours". Goethe | |||
| 328 | "Les joies sont visibles, mais fausses, et les chagrins cachés, mais réels". La Bruyère | |||
| 329 | "A great society is a society in which its men of business think greatly of their functions". Alfred North Whitehead | |||
| 330 | "There is a great deal of noise on the stairs but nobody comes into the room". Chinese proverb | |||
| 331 | "Power as the rival of power". Hamilton | |||
| 332 | "Covenants without the sword are but words." Hobbes | |||
| 333 | "It is often much harder to unlearn than to learn." Las Casas (in his life of Chr.Columbus) | |||
| 334 | "For any man, any great climb on the social ladder produces a crisis that cures the ill he has and creates new ones that he never had before." Mirabeau | |||
| 335 | "Man is the only being who refuses to be what he is" Albert Camus | |||
| 336 | Quotation fo the Day April 22, 1961 "The use with which the Communists make of democracy, and then when they seize power, the effectiveness with which they manage the police apparatus so that dissent cannot arise, and so that the people can no longer express their will - liquidation by gunfire of the opposition or by forcing them out of the country to be refugees - this sugests the kind of problem which we are going to have in this decade." President Kenney. | |||
| 337 | ... Kunecka ... JFK 21 curpuna 1961 | |||
| 338 | "L'art c'est la nature vue au travers d'un tempérament." E. Zola | |||
| 339 | "Let us speak plainly. Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionanry movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee." Rosa Luxemburg ciriticizing Lenin in 1904 | |||
| 340 | Lenin in November 1917 was able to seize power "as easily as lifting up a feather." | |||
| 341 | "Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently". Rosa Luxemburg | |||
| 342 | "Our people are not only becoming atheists, but believe in atheism as if it were a religion." Dostoyevski | |||
| 343 | "Some day Jinghis Khan will return with the telegraph ..." Herzen | |||
| 344 | "The French Revolution is the precursor on another, more magnificent revolution which will be the last." Babeuf, Manifeste des Egaux, 1796 | |||
| 345 | "The American is infinitely better than his words." Eric Hoffer (1962) | |||
| 346 | "In the long run, over-great goodness, mildness, and moral delicacy will not do, while underneath there is a mixed and sometimes vicious world to manage and hold in respect." Goethe | |||
| 347 | "Contemporary democracy is the diffusion of power throughout the communists". John Strachey (1956) | |||
| 348 | "The Communist capture of Russia is one of the most extraordinary accidents in all history ..." H.G. Wells | |||
| 349 | "What you have constructed could have been built anywhere; what you have destroyed was unique." Charles V [...] | |||
| 350 | "Le sentiment religieux est l'horreur de la solitude." François Mauriac | |||
| 351 | "Any prediction is extra-scientific prophecy that attempts to do more than to diagnose observable tendencies and to state what results would be, if these tendencies should work themselves out according to their logic." Joseph Schumpeter | |||
| 352 | "History is politics projected into the past." M.N. Pokrovsky | |||
| 353 | "Who controls the present, controls the past." G. Orwell | |||
| 354 | "There are no lost causes, because there are no gained causes." T.S. Eliot | |||
| 355 | "... for the Right to tie itself in any way to Senator McCarthy is scuicide. Even if he were not what, poor man, he has become, he can't lead anybody beause he can't think." Whittaker Chambers, in 1954, to W.F. Buckley, Jr. | |||
| 356 | "Ten men acting together can make a hundred thousand tremble apart. Mirabeau | |||
| 357 | "Each man's experience starts again from the beginning. Only institutions grow wiser; they accumulate collective experience, and owing to this experience and this wisdom, men subject to the same rules will not see their own natures changing, but their behavior gradually transformed." Amiel [Swiss philosopher] | |||
| 358 | "We need not hohpe in order ot act, nor need we succeed in ordor to persevere." William of Orange (17 th cent) | |||
| 359 | "Quand je suis le plus faible, je vous demande la liberté, parce que tel est votre principe; mais quand je suis le plus fort, je vous l'ôte, parce que tel est le mien" ["I demand my liberty for the sake of your principles and I forbid yours for the sake of mine"] Louis Veuillot | |||
| 360 | "The optimist in politics is an inconstant and even dangerous man, because he takes no account of the great difficulties presented by his projects." Georges Sorel : "Reflections on Violence" | |||
| 361 | " The cannon killed feudalism. Ink will kill modern society." From Napoleon's Pensées copied by Lenin | |||
| 362 | "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards." Soren Kierkegaard | |||
| 363 | "What matters is the underlying emotions, the music to which the ideas are the mere libretto." Sir Lewis Namier | |||
| 364 | "The lost causes are exactly those which might have saved the world." G.K.Chesterton | |||
| 365 | "If asked whether in the light of present practices one should fear science, the answer is: No. But fear the men. The double temptation of machines and formulas is too much for most intellects to resist." Jacquest Barzun | |||
| 366 | "The outbreak of most revolutions has suprrised the revolutionist groups and parties no less than all others, and there exists hardly a revolution whose outbreak could be blamed on their activities. It was usually the other way around: revolution broke out and liberated, as it were, the professionals revolutionists from wherever they happened to be - from jail, or from the coffee house, or from the library." Hannah Arendt, On Revolution | |||
| 367 | "Tolerance always has limits - it cannot tolerate what is itself actively intolerant." Sidney Hood | |||
| 368 | "I refuse to accept this. I believe that man will not merely endure: He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance." Faulkner in Stockholm, Dec.1950 | |||
| 369 | "Life is, in fact a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and manking generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night; we wake up to it again for ever and ever; we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it. Henry James | |||
| 370 | "If we submit ourselves to the event, if we think more of the accomplished deed than of the suggested problem, we become servile accomplices of success and force." Lord Acton, The French Revolution | |||
| 371 | "Our passion for nihilistic self-doubt may come to and end only
when it has finally destroyed our civilization." Michel Polanyi | |||
| 372 | "In the spring of 1917 some people caught socialism the way others caught the flu." John Dos Passos | |||
| 373 | "It seemed so simple to burn out the caterpillars who were ruining the orchard. The first of May was coming ... This was all fifts years ago : Now we know that the first of May will never come. Where the workers conquered they allowed themselves to be overwhelmed by organizations even more oppressive than the old regimes they had overthrown." John Dos Passos (1968) | |||
| 374 | "Those who cannot remember the pase are condemned to repeat it." George Santayana, The Life of Reason | |||
| 375 | "One man with courage make a majority." Andrew Jackson | |||
| 376 | "Success has always been a great liar." Nietsche (as quoted by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.) | |||
| 377 | "The pretence of democracy is the compliment which tyranny pays to freedom." Robert Strausz-Hupé | |||
| 378 | "France, with her face all wrinkled with Party lines." Loyd George | |||
| 379 | "It is pardonnable to be defeated but never to be surprised." Frederick the Great | |||
| 380 | "As I would not be a slave, I would not be a master." Lincoln | |||
| 381 | "Du dix-huitième siècle et de la révolution, comme d'une source commune, étaient sortis deux fleuves : le premier conduisait les hommes aux institutions libres, tandis que le second les menait au pouvoir absolu." Alexis de Tocqueville | |||
| 382 | "The sad duty of politics is tu establish justice in a sinful world." Reinhold Niebuhr | |||
| 383 | "We are bereft of faith but terrified of skepticism." Lincoln | |||
| 384 | "A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern of timeless moments ... " T.S. Eliot | |||
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| 386 | The more corrupt the Republic, the more the laws." Tacitus | |||
| 387 | ... | |||
| 388 | "De mille orateurs l'éloquence stérile faisant de nos abus un détail inutile car de tant de conseils, l'effet le plus commun est de voir tous nous maux sans en soulager un" Voltaire | |||
| 389 | "A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous. C.S. Lewis | |||
| 390 | "Man is not what we think he is; he is what he hides." André Malraux | |||
| 391 | "I believe in the incomprehensibility of God." Honoré Balsac | |||
| 392 | "Faith which does not doubt is a dead faith." Miguel de Unàmuno | |||
| 393 | "Nonintervention is the same as intervention." Talleyrand | |||
| 394 | "The function of socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." Norman Mailer | |||
| 395 | "The account of our affairs during the last century was only a heap of conspiracies, rebellions, murders, massacres, revolutions, banishments, the very worst effects that avarice, faction, hypocrisy, perfidiousness, cruelty, rage, madness, hatred, envy, lust, malice or abmition could produce "?" Jonathan Swift (1726) Guliver's Travels | |||
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