#esma

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#criminal #revolutionary #statesman #successful #unsuccessful

You know, a statesman is a dead politician. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#know #politician #statesman #you

He has not yet become an elder statesman, though his foreign policy credentials are considerable, but he is certainly our ancient mariner, forever tugging at our sleeve to let him tell his tale of what really happened. ↗

— Ronald Steel

#become #certainly #considerable #credentials #elder

To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman. ↗

— George Santayana

#crime #dangerous #delight #merit #positive

As a salesman, it’s not enough to be able to sell a toilet to a man who’s got to pee. You’ve got to make him pay you for the privilege of pissing his pants. Don’t sell him a toilet. Don’t sell him pants. Sell him a privilege. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#privilege #salesman #sell #funny

Before I sold used cars, I sold used horses. Mostly to glue factories. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#factories #funny #horses #humor #sales

Fake vitamin pills. Placebos. I sell them, because I sell hope.
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— Jarod Kintz

#hope #humor #placebo #sale #salesman

Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been made so clear to me. If you care to imagine what any inadequate or cruel man might do, given unlimited power over a woman, then anything that you can bring yourself to suspect was what became routine in ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School that became the headquarters of the business. I talked to Dr. Emilio Mignone, a distinguished physician whose daughter Monica had disappeared into the precincts of that hellish place. What do you find to say to a doctor and a humanitarian who has been gutted by the image of a starving rat being introduced to his daughter's genitalia? Like hell itself the school was endorsed and blessed by priests, in case any stray consciences needed to be stilled. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#esma #hell #sadism #sexual-abuse #torture

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. ↗

— James Freeman Clarke

#generation #next #next election #politician #statesman

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#conservative #distinguished #enamored #evils #existing