A Reminder for this Member of Bourgeois

The man of culture finds the whole past relevant; the bourgeois and the barbarian find relevant only what has some pressing connection with their appetites.

Source: Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences 1948

History and Bloodshed

Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory . . . and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.

Source: Alfred Adler, The Collected Clinical Works of Alfred Adler, Vol4, pg149, "The Other Side", 1919
Taken From: Antiwar.com, Antiwar Quotes

When Money Dies

Inflation did not conjure up Hitler, any more than he, as it happened, conjured it. But it made Hitler possible. 

Source:  When Money Dies, Adam Fergusson 1975
Taken From: The Casey Report, Vol IV, Issue 7 - July 2011

Moral Blindness

The most worthless of mankind are not afraid to condemn in others the same disorders which they allow in themselves; and can readily discover some nice difference of age, character, or station, to justify the partial distinction.

Source:  Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1776, p. 128
Taken From: Casey Research, Conversations with Casey, 12/22/2010, My Favorite Quotes

Imperial Issues

I don’t want to try to insert Britain in some leading role where, as with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place.

Source: David Cameron, Prime Minister of the UK
Taken From: Cameron's F-word outburst at reporters over British Empire 'gaffe', Mail Online 4/10/2011

History Lesson

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Aldous Huxley