This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment.
Achievement | Freedom |
With the unlocking of the atom, mankind crossed one of the great watersheds of history. We have entered uncharted lands. The maps of strategy and diplomacy by which we guided ourselves until yesterday no longer reveal the way. Fusion and fission revolutionized the entire foundation of human affairs.
What institution of government could tend so much to promote the happiness of mankind as the general prevalence of wisdom and virtue? All government is but an imperfect remedy for the deficiency of these.
Government | Mankind | Virtue | Virtue | Wisdom | Government | Happiness |
Don't wait for the last judgment-it takes place every day...An achievement is bondage. It obliges one to higher achievement.
Achievement | Day | Judgment |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, fully Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The salvation of mankind lies only in making everything the concern of all.
Periods of tranquility are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.
Achievement | Mankind |
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, fully Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence. Any man who has once proclaimed violence as his method is inevitably forced to take the lie as his principle.