Tapani Bagge quotes

  • Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

  • Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

  • The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

  • In the life of nations, what in the last resort decides questions is a kind of Judgment Court of God... Always before god and the world the stronger has the right to carry through what he wills.

  • The earth continues to go round, whether it's the man who kills the tiger or the tiger who eats the man. The stronger asserts his will, it's the law of nature. The world doesn't change; its laws are eternal.

  • No farmer-sportsman group is stronger than the ties of mutual confidence and enthusiasm which bind its members.

  • We coin concepts and we use them to analyse and explain nature and society. But we seem to forget, midway, that these concepts are our own constructs and start equating them with reality.

  • We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  • I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

  • The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

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