This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Jefferson Davis, known as Jeff Davis
Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
J. G. Fichte, fully Johann Gottlieb Fichte
If you are to judge a man, you must know his secret thoughts, sorrows, and feelings; to know merely the outward events of a man's life would only serve to make a chronological table—a fool's notion of history.
Osho, born Chandra Mohan Jain, also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh NULL
Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.
Ambition | Means | Politics | Respect | System | Will | Ambition | Respect |
Jayaprakash Narayan, known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash or Loknayak
True politics is about promotion of human happiness.
Politics |
Jayaprakash Narayan, known as JP Narayan, Jayaprakash or Loknayak
If you really care for freedom, liberty, There cannot be any democracy or liberal institution without politics. The only true antidote to the perversions of politics is more politics and better politics. Not negation of politics.
Action does not come to a stop in its structures, it remains in action. In other words, there is much more in bodies, thins and events than is contained in their structures or material forms. All things overflow their own structural limits. The inner Action transcends the outer structure, and there is thus a trend in things beyond themselves.
James Barrett Reston, nicknamed "Scotty"
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
Indifference | Politics |
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
Politics | Leadership |
Jim Lovell, fully James "Jim" Arthur Lovell
You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
Events |
All revelation is given, not in the form of directly communicated knowledge, but through events occurring in the historical experience of mankind, events which are apprehended by faith as the “mighty acts” of God.
Events | Experience | Faith | Revelation |
People who routinely insist on the illegitimacy of blaming victims now do it. No one deserved what happened to them on September 11, neither the immediate victims and their families nor the country itself. Cannot a powerful country bleed? Are not its citizens as mortal as those anywhere? Simple human recognition along these lines does not deter the literary theorist Frederic Jameson from seeing in these horrific events "a textbook example of dialectical reversal."
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
Politics | Selfishness |
God manifests Himself in events rather than in things, and these events can never be captured or localized in things.
Events |
Faith is found in solicitude for faith, in an inner care for the wonder that is everywhere. Highest in the list of virtues, this anxious caring extends not only to the moral sphere but to all realms of life, to oneself and to others, to words and to thoughts, to events and to deeds. Unawed by the prevailing narrowness of mind, it persists as an attitude toward the whole of reality; to hold small things great, to take light matters seriously, to think of the common and the passing from the aspect of the lasting.
John F. Kennedy, fully John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
In politics you have no friends, only allies.
Politics |
I must study politics and war, that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
Children | History | Liberty | Mathematics | Order | Politics | Right | Study |
John Kenneth Galbraith, aka "Ken"
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Education is not just learning dates and events from history but learning to apply the lessons of lives well lived and lives poorly lived -- and how to tell the difference.