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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

- Richard Armour January 17, 2025

It is always when the world is undergoing a metamorphosis, when certainties are collapsing, when the lines are becoming blurred, that there is greatest recourse to fundamental reference points….

Boutros Boutros Ghali, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, to the World Conference on Human Rights, 1993

I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible.

Mahatma Gandhi

The noble art of Losing Face May sometimes save the Human Race

Piet Hein, Dane of many talents, quoted by Torsten Őrn, Swedish diplomat, in Varfŏr diplomati? (Why Diplomacy)