Too much thinking, not enough feeling.
Free nations generally look for ways to deal with dictators amicably.
If you have to fight an enemy at a critical point in time, and you have an ally who happens to be a dictator, you don't say: Let's stop fighting right now, because you're not a democrat. That would be ridiculous.
Non-democratic regimes always need to mobilize their people against external enemies in order to maintain internal stability.
Believe me, the drug of freedom is universally potent.
It is important to remember that some of the most serious thinkers once thought that democracy was not compatible with the cultures of Germany, Italy, Japan, Latin America and Russia.
To go again over the history of the struggle of resistance. . . and to think 'Where are all these people today Where is the KGB' is very inspiring
"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world.
This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!
You are not in the world. . . the world is in you," what did he mean? [That is, you are not in the world," that is, there is no "you" that is real or in any world. "The world is in you" means that the world is in your "mind" and is nothing more than a figment of your programming-and-conditioning-induced imaginings. ]