Blaues Quadrat Quotes & Sayings

Winning medals wasn't the point of the Olympics. It's the participating that counts. — Pierre De Coubertin

New media require that we - as leaders of our lives - choose where, when, and how to get things done, to manage the boundaries between different parts of life. — Stewart D. Friedman

For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them. They fear the bold man, and mistrust the clever man, and moreover think them rather beholding to their natural complexion, than to any goodness of their will, for these excellences; they look upon valour as a certain natural strength of the mind, and wisdom as a constitutional acuteness; whereas a man has it in his power to be just, if he have but the will to be so, and therefore injustice is thought the most dishonourable, because it is least excusable. — Plutarch

Come to find out, the Russians were never afraid of the Americans. They weren't raised with the terror that we were by our government. I was struck by how our government misled us for so many years. — Deidre Hall

Never take advice from someone wearing a tie. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable. — Walter Bagehot