Harvey Mansfield quotes
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“We have now an American political party and a European one. Not all Americans who vote for the European party want to become Europeans. But it doesn't matter because that's what they're voting for. They're voting for dependency, for lack of ambition, and for insolvency.”
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“That is why I have called feminism nihilism. It says that being a woman is nothing definite and that the duty of women is to advance that nothingness as a cause.”
-- Harvey MansfieldSource : Harvey Claflin Mansfield (2007). “Manliness”, p.147, Yale University Press
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“We are in the process of making the English language gender-neutral, and manliness, the quality of one gender, or rather, of one sex, seems to describe the essence of the enemy we are attacking, the evil we are eradicating.”
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“Christopher Lynch has made the best and the first careful translation of Machiavelli's Art of War. With useful notes, an excellent introduction, an interpretive essay, glossary, and index, it is a treasure for readers of military history and Renaissance thought as well as for lovers of Machiavelli.”
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Source : "Thai opposition views new election" by Ram Ramgopal, edition.cnn.com. April 4, 2006.
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“Every man has his secret desire, I suppose, and mine is someday to own a farm.”
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Source : Abba Eban (1969). “My people: the story of the Jews”, George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
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“Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.”
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