Humbolt Quotes

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Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Wherever one notices them, they constitute a sign of ignorance and brutality which cannot be painted over even by all the evidence of wealth and luxury.
Alexander Von Humbolt
Prussian philosopher Alexandre von Humbolt. “The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.
Malcolm W. Nance (The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West)
The state tends to make man an instrument to serve its arbitrary ends, overlooking his individual purposes. And since man, in his essence, is a free searching self perfecting being, it follows that the state is a profoundly anti human institution. That is, its actions are incompatible with the full harmonious development of human potential in its richest diversity. Hence incompatible with the true end of man…!
Wilhelm Von Humbolt 1792
la motivación para la declaración de independencia de México fue proteger el conjunto de instituciones económicas desarrolladas durante el período colonial, que había hecho de México, en palabras del gran explorador y geógrafo alemán de Latinoamérica, Alexander von Humbolt, «el país de la desigualdad». Aquellas instituciones, que basaban la sociedad en la explotación de los pueblos indígenas y la creación de monopolios, bloquearon los incentivos y las iniciativas de la gran masa de la población. Mientras Estados Unidos empezaba a experimentar la revolución industrial en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, México se hacía cada vez más pobre.
Anonymous
But I didn't pick up the passport. It suddenly felt like a betrayal to take on a new identity. I was, and should always be, the-fuck-up Joy Humbolt. Didn't I deserve the sentence I'd meted out to myself? Could a new name—a new life—change the darkness that lived inside me? It was the same darkness that haunted my every movement, and drove me to the brink of despair.
Emily Kimelman (Sydney Rye Mysteries Books 1-3 Box Set)
Dachau AEG (electronics) [3] AGFA-Kamerawerke [10] Anorgana GmbH [10] Arnold Fischer [10] Bartholith-Werke [10] Berliner Baugesellschaft (BBG) [10] BMW (aircraft motors) [1] [2] [5] [8] [10] Chemiegauer Vertriebsgesellschaft [10] Chemische Werke GmbH Otto Barlocher [10] Dachau Entommologisches Institut (construction) [1] Dornier-Werke GmbH (aircraft components) [2] [10] Dyckerhoff & Widmann (construction) [1] [5] [10] Dynamit Nobel (munitions) [3] [5] [10] Feller-Tuchfabrik [10] Fleischkonservenfabrik Hans Wulfert (butchery, food processing) [5] [8] [10] Formholz [10] Franz Nutzl [10] Gebrüder Helfman [10] Giesing Kamerawerke (optics) [1] Hebel [10] Hess, Ilse [10] Hochtief GmbH [10] Philipp Holzmann (construction) [3] I. Ehrenput [10] IG Farben[10] Dr. Jung [10] Karl Bucklers [10] Keller und Knappich [10] Dr. Ing. Kimmel (generators) [2] Kirsch [10] Klockner-Humbolt-Deutz AG [10] Kodel und Bohm [10] Kuno (munitions for Messerschmitt) [10] L. Bautz [10] Loden-Frey, München [8] [10] Luftfahrtforschungsanstalt München (airfield construction) [2] Magnesit [10] Messerschmitt AG (aircraft) [1] [2] [3] [5] [10] Michel-Fabrik Augsburg [1] München-Allach Porzellan Manufaktur (ceramics) [1] Ölschieferanlagen (oil refinery construction) [8] Praezifix (aircraft components) [2] [5] [8] [10] Pumpel und Co. [10] Reichsbahnausbesserungswerk München (construction) [1] [8] Reichsstrassenbauamt Innsbruck (construction) [1] Sager und Worner [10] U. Sachse-Kempten KG (factory construction) [2] [8] [10] Schuhhaus Meier [10] Schurich [10] Dr. Schweninger [10] Unic [10] Zeppelin Luftschiffbauu (dirigibles) [8] [10]
Christopher Simpson (The Splendid Blond Beast: Money, Law, and Genocide in the Twentieth Century (Forbidden Bookshelf))
la motivación para la declaración de independencia de México fue proteger el conjunto de instituciones económicas desarrolladas durante el período colonial, que había hecho de México, en palabras del gran explorador y geógrafo alemán de Latinoamérica, Alexander von Humbolt, «el país de la desigualdad». Aquellas instituciones, que basaban la sociedad en la explotación de los pueblos indígenas y la creación de monopolios, bloquearon los incentivos y las iniciativas de la gran masa de la población. Mientras Estados Unidos empezaba a experimentar la revolución industrial en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, México se hacía cada vez más pobre.
Daron Acemoğlu (Por qué fracasan los países: Los orígenes del poder, la prosperidad y la pobreza)