simon bolivar quotes

lister
(also: simon bolivar)

”When tyranny becomes law, rebellion is a right.” -Simon Bolivar

”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free.” -Simon Bolivar

”The art of victory is learned in defeat.” -Simon Bolivar

”Nations will march towards the apex of their greatness at the same pace as their education. Nations will soar if their education soars; they will regress if it regresses. Nations will fall and sink in darkness if education is corrupted or completely abandoned.” -Simon Bolivar

”Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves.”-Simon Bolivar

”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second.”-Simon Bolivar

”The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar

”In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.”-Simon Bolivar

”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.”-Simon Bolivar

”The United States appear to be destined by Providence to plague America with misery in the name of liberty.”-Simon Bolivar

”Do not compare your material forces with those of the enemy. Spirit cannot be compared with matter. You are human beings, they are beasts. You are free, they are slaves.”-Simon Bolivar

”God grants victory to perseverance.”-Simon Bolivar

”The Ignorance the people live in leads them to commit mistakes against their own happiness.”-Simon Bolivar

”The first duty of a government is to give education to the people.”-Simon Bolivar

”Colombians! My last wish is for the happiness of the patria. If my death contributes to the end of partisanship and the consolidation of the union, I shall be lowered in peace into my grave.”-Simon Bolivar

”A state too expensive in itself, or by virtue of its dependencies, ultimately falls into decay; its free government is transformed into a tyranny; it disregards the principles which it should preserve, and finally degenerates into despotism. The distinguishing characteristic of small republics is stability: the character of large republics is mutability.”-Simon Bolivar

”The freedom of the New World is the hope of the Universe.”-Simon Bolivar

”If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.”-Simon Bolivar

”He who serves a revolution ploughs a sea.”-Simon Bolivar

”Out of the most secure things, the most secure is to doubt.”-Simon Bolivar

”The three greatest fools (majaderos) of history have been Jesus Christ, Don Quixote – and I!”-Simon Bolivar

”Morals and lights are our first necessities.”-Simon Bolivar

”Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?”-Simon Bolivar

”Let the entire system of government be strengthened, and let the balance of power be drawn up in such a manner that it will be permanent and incapable of decay because of its own tenuity.”-Simon Bolivar

”Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar

”War lives on despotism and is not waged with God's love.”-Simon Bolivar

”Our hatred knows no bounds, and the war shall be to the death.”-Simon Bolivar

”Legislators could certainly do with a school of morals.”-Simon Bolivar

”Among the popular and representative systems of government I do not approve of the federal system: it is too perfect; and it requires virtues and political talents much superior to our own.”-Simon Bolivar

”Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes.”-Simon Bolivar

”Do not adopt the best system of government, but the one most likely to succeed.”-Simon Bolivar

”Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”-Simon Bolivar

”If Nature is opposed, we will fight her and make her obbey us.”-Simon Bolivar

”When mankind was in its infancy, steeped in uncertainty, ignorance, and error, was it possible to foresee what system it would adopt for preservation.”-Simon Bolivar

”Colombians! Gather around the constitutional congress. It represents the wisdom of the nation, the legitimate hope of the people, and the final point of reunion of the patriots”-Simon Bolivar

”The death of my wife placed me early in the road of politics, and caused me to follow the chariot of Mars”-Simon Bolivar

”If Miranda believed the Spaniards would observe the treaty, he should have remained to keep them to their word; if he did not, he was a traitor to have sacrificed his army to it”-Simon Bolivar

”We have been ruled more by deceit than by force, and we have been degraded more by vice than by superstition”-Simon Bolivar

”To do something right it must be done twice. The first time instructs the second”-Simon Bolivar

”Should I not let it be known to later generations that Alexander Petion is the true liberator of my country?”-Simon Bolivar

"They mistake pure illusion for reality, license for freedom, treason for patriotism, vengeance for justice”-Simon Bolivar

”It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny”-Simon Bolivar

”All who have served the Revolution have ploughed the sea”-Simon Bolivar

”A people that loves freedom will in the end be free”-Simon Bolivar

”Good morals, and not force are the pillars of the law”-Simon Bolivar

”God grants victory to perseverance”-Simon Bolivar

”Slavery is the worst human indignity”-Simon Bolivar

kitsune

orikami
(n.) Foxes and humans lived close together in ancient Japan; this companionship gave rise to legends about the creatures. Kitsune have become closely associated with Inari, a Shinto kami or spirit, and serve as its messengers. This role has reinforced the fox's supernatural significance. The more tails a kitsune has – they may have as many as nine – the older, wiser, and more powerful it is. Because of their potential power and influence, some people make sacrifices to them as to a deity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune

(also: be not afraid)
(also: fox)

paper-pusher

orikami
(n.) if you gotta push some papers around, ok, sure; but if something awful happens on your watch, don't pass it off with the excuse of "I was just doing my job". you are still instilled with the gift and the responsibility to stay aware of your surroundings, your actions and consequences, and to stay connected with your soul.
https://medium.com/the-retrospective/hannah-arendt-on-the-banality-of-evil-4e75fd840c68

(also: bullshit jobs)
the harms of (also: balkanization)
the harms of (also: decontextualization)

space

douglas adams
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindbogglingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space

If you hold a lungful of air you can survive in the total vacuum of space for about thirty seconds. However, what with space being the mindboggling size it is, the chances of getting picked up by another ship within those thirty seconds are two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand seven hundred and nine to one against.

(also: infinity)

newtonian

the devils dictionary
Pertaining to a philosophy of the universe invented by Newton, who discovered that an apple will fall to the ground, but was unable to say why. His successors and disciples have advanced so far as to be able to say when.

the moon

maxhaskins
The moon is the only natural sattelite of the earth, formed 4.5 billion years ago by a rock the size of mars called theia colliding with the earth, the resulting debris formed the current moon.

potable

the devils dictionary
Suitable for drinking. Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder known as thirst, for which it is a medicine. Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water. To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific — and without science we are as the snakes and toads.
(also: The Devil's Dictionary)

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