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The history of power politics is nothing but the history of international crime and mass murder.

Karl Popper

The Open Society and Its Enemies

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

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Peirce, Benjamin. Linear Associative Algebra. Van Nostrand, 1882, sect. 1.

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In its widest possible sense, however, a man's Self is the sum total of all that he can call his, not only his body and his psychic powers, but his clothes and his house, his wife and children, his ancestors and friends, his reputation and works, his lands and horses, and yacht and bank account. All these things give him the same emotions. If they wax and prosper, he feels triumphant; if they dwindle and die away, he feels cast down.

William James

The Principles of Psychology

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James, William. The Principles of Psychology. Vol. 1, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1890, ch. 10.

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As the traveller who has been once from home is wiser than he who has never left his own door step, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinise more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

Margaret Mead

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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. William Morrow and Co., 1928, introduction.

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Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. Mariner Books Classics, 2001, introduction.

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Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.

Melvin Kranzberg

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Kranzberg, Melvin. "Technology and History: Kranzberg's Laws." Technology and Culture, vol. 27, no. 3, July 1986, pp. 544-560.

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Exile is predicated on the existence of, love for, and a real bond with one's native place; the universal truth of exile is not that one has lost that love or home, but that inherent in each is an unexpected, unwelcome loss. Regard experiences then as if they were to disappear.

Edward Said

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Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus, 1993.

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The government of cities is the one conspicuous failure of the United States.

James Bryce

The American Commonwealth

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Bryce, James. The American Commonwealth. Vol. 1, London: Macmillan and Co., 1888, ch. 51.

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Language and our thought-grooves are inextricably interwoven, are, in a sense, one and the same.

Edward Sapir

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Sapir, Edward. Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1921, ch. 10.

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There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Popper

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Popper, Karl. The Open Society and Its Enemies. Vol. 2, Routledge, 1995, ch. 25.

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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus, and at a touch they are there in all their completeness, definite types of mentality which probably somewhere have their field of application and adaptation.

William James

The Varieties of Religious Experience

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James, William. "Mysticism." Gifford Lecture. c. 1902, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland. Lecture.

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James, William. "Mysticism." The Varieties of Religious Experience, edited by Martin E. Marty. Penguin Classics, 1982.

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The frontier is the outer edge of the wave-the meeting-point between savagery and civilization... And line of most rapid and effective Americanization. The wilderness masters the colonist.

Frederick Jackson Turner

The Significance of the Frontier in American History

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Turner, Frederick Jackson. "The Significance of the Frontier in American History." American Historical Association meeting. 1893, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL, USA.

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Where torture has been long applied we find that it is developed to grades of incredible horror.

William Graham Sumner

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Sumner, William Graham. Folkways: A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals. Ginn & Company, 1906, ch. 5.

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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

William James

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James, William. Letter to W. Lutoslawski. 6 May 1906.

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The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess success. That-with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word success-is our national disease.

William James

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James, William. Letter to H. G. Wells. 11 Sept. 1906.

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly.

Laura Mulvey

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Mulvey, Laura. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema." Screen, 1 Oct. 1975.

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Man, biologically considered, and whatever else he may be in the bargain, is simply the most formidable of all the beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own species.

William James

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James, William. "Remarks At The Peace Banquet." Atlantic Monthly, Dec. 1904. Originally remarks at the world peace banquet. 7 Oct. 1904, Boston, MA, USA.

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The shrewd guess, the fertile hypothesis, the courageous leap to a tentative conclusion-these are the most valuable coin of the thinker at work.

Jerome Bruner

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Bruner, Jerome. The Process of Education. Harvard University Press, 1960, introduction.

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If the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.

G.M. Trevelyan

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Trevelyan, George Macaulay. English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries Chaucer to Queen Victoria. Longmans, Green and Company, 1942, ch. 8.

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If you look at a dog following the advice of his nose, he traverses a patch of land in a completely unplottable manner. And he invariably finds what he's looking for.

W.G. Sebald

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Sebald, Winifred Georg. Interview with Joe Cuomo. Queens College Evening Reading Series. 13 Mar. 2001, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA. Question and answer session.

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