Zbigniew Quotes

We have a large public that is very ignorant about public affairs and very susceptible to simplistic slogans by candidates who appear out of nowhere, have no track record, but mouth appealing slogans

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy

Be courageous when the mind deceives you Be courageous In the final account only this is important

We fall asleep on words / we wake among words

One has to understand what the enemy is all about: the enemy's history, the enemy's culture, the enemy's aspirations. If you understand these well, you can perhaps move towards peace.

Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

Because you can't intervene everywhere, you don't conclude you can't intervene anywhere.

I could write a treatise on the sudden transformation of life into archaeology

It cannot be stressed enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire [95].

In the technotronic society the trend would seem to be towards the aggregation of the individual support of millions of uncoordinated citizens, easily within the reach of magnetic and attractive personalities exploiting the latest communications techniques to manipulate emotions and control reason.

A craftsman must probe to the very bottom of cruelty.

[American exceptionalism] is a reaction to the inability of people to understand global complexity or important issues like American energy dependency. Therefore, they search for simplistic sources of comfort and clarity. And the people that they are now selecting to be, so to speak, the spokespersons of their anxieties are, in most cases, stunningly ignorant.

Inanimate objects are always correct and cannot, unfortunately, be reproached with anything. I have never observed a chair shift from one foot to another, or a bed rear on its hind legs. And tables, even when they are tired, will not dare to bend their knees. I suspect that objects do this from pedagogical considerations, to reprove us constantly for our instability.

This regionalization is in keeping with the Tri-Lateral Plan which calls for a gradual convergence of East and West, ultimately leading toward the goal of one world government. National sovereignty is no longer a viable concept.

You can be a good painter if you study Cézanne's vision. Whoever dares to copy Van Gogh falls inevitably into the hell of imitators. For this painter didn't care about masterpieces, or even good paintings... but about what is beyond all painting, all art.

The ongoing changes in the distribution of global power and mounting global strife make it all the more imperative that America not retreat into an ignorant garrison-state mentality or wallow in self-righteous cultural hedonism

Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

To resolve conflicts, excessive ambitions and one's own fears and aspirationis must be sacrificed.

The world became more aware that America-despite being the hope of many who have the personal drive and ambition to become part of the "American dream"-is beset by serious operational challenges: a massive and growing national debt, widening social inequality, a cornucopian culture that worships materialism, a financial system given to greedy speculation, and a polarized political system

Lord I thank you for creating the world beautiful and various and for allowing me in Your fathomless goodness to visit places which were not the sites of my daily torments

Very early on, near the beginning of my writing life, I came to believe that I had to seize on some object outside of literature. Writing as a sylistic exercise seemed barren to me. Poetry as the art of the word made me yawn. I also understood that I couldn't sustain myself very long on the poems of others. I had to go out from myself and literature, look around in the world and lay hold of other spheres of reality.

Potentially the most dangerous scenario would be a grand coalition of China, Russia and perhaps Iran, an ‘anti-hegemonic’ coalition, united not by ideology but by complementary grievances. . . . Averting this contingency . . . will require a display of US geostrategic skill on the western, eastern and southern perimeters of Eurasia simultaneously.” — Zbigniew Brzezinski, former foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama

ماذا أقول على شاطىء بحر صغير ميت يطمر الماء ببطء آثار أقدامٍ تتلاشى

The dead have need of fairy tales too.

A bird is a bird Slavery means slavery A knife is a knife Death remains death

And if the City falls but a single man escapes. He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile. He will be the City.

there's a terrible silence before a predator's night sometimes an absurd airplane appears in the sky it throws out leaflets calling for surrender I would be happy to surrender but I've no one to surrender to

Bądź wierny Idź

Mężczyzna powinien sobie uświadomić, że w jego interesie (seksualnym i każdym innym) leży nieustanne poprawianie nastroju partnerki.

Ta książ­ka ła­god­nie mnie na­po­mi­na nie po­zwa­la bym zbyt szyb­ko biegł w takt to­czą­cej się fra­zy każe wró­cić do po­cząt­ku wciąż za­czy­nać od nowa

And if the City falls but a single man escapes He will carry the City within himself on the roads of exile He will be the City

if we lose the ruins nothing will be left

I do not turn to history to draw from it an easy lesson of hope, but to confront my experience with that of others, to acquire something I might call universal compassion, and also a sense of responsibility, responsibility for the state of my conscience.

a przecież kupowałem w salonach sztuki pudry mikstury maście szminki na szlachetność przykładałem do oczu marmur zieleń Veronese'a Mozartem nacierałem uszy doskonaliłem nozdrza wonią starych książek

فى غفلة تخطّيت حافة أسنانها وبلعت لسانها الرشيق. يعيش فى أعماقى الآن، كسمكة يابانية.يمسّ قلبى والحجاب الحاجز كما لو كان يمسّ جدران حوض للسمك. تحرك الطمى من القاع. تلك التى حرمتُها الصوت تحملق فىّ بعيون واسعة وتنتظر كلمة. إلا أننى حين أكلمها لا أعرف أى لسان أستخدم- اللسان المسروق أم اللسان الذى يذوب فى فمى من فرط الطيبة.

when the Lord built the world he furrowed his brow calculated calculated calculated that is why the world is perfect and uninhabitable instead the world of the painter is good and full of mistakes the eye wanders from one color to another one fruit to another the eye mumbles the eye smiles remembers the eye says it is bearable only if one could enter inside there where the painter was without wings in slippers that fall off without Virgil with a cat in the pocket a benevolent fantasy and a hand that unknowingly corrects the world

Another threat, less overt but no less basic, confronts liberal democracy. More directly linked to the impact of technology, it involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled and directed society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite whose claim to political power would rest on allegedly superior scientific knowhow. Unhindered by the restraints of traditional liberal values, this elite would not hesitate to achieve its political ends by using the latest modern techniques for influencing public behavior and keeping society under close surveillance and control. Under such circumstances, the scientific and technological momentum of the country would not be reversed but would actually feed on the situation it exploits. … Persisting social crisis, the emergence of a charismatic personality, and the exploitation of mass media to obtain public confidence would be the steppingstones in the piecemeal transformation of the United States into a highly controlled society.

Zawsze powinniście zauważyć zmianę fryzury, inną sukienkę.

... nuestros ojos reflejan una pregunta apacible como un espejo que ya no enmohece el aliento cada día renuevo mi mirar cada día va creciendo mi tacto con el cosquilleo de la cercanía de tantas cosas.

go upright among those who are down on their knees those with their backs turned those toppled in the dust you have survived not so that you might live you have little time you must give testimony be courageous when reason fails you be courageous in the final reckoning it is the only thing that counts and your helpless Anger - may it be like the sea whenever you hear the voice of the insulted and beaten

David Rockefeller and Zbigniew Brzezinski found Jimmy Carter to be their ideal candidate. They helped him win the nomination and the presidency. To accomplish this purpose, they mobilized the money power of the Wall Street bankers, the intellectual influence of the academic community – which is subservient to the wealth of the great tax-free foundations – and the media controllers represented in the membership of the CFR and the Trilateral.

So is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentleman separated once and for all and said this is the subject this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully

It was created by David Rockefeller, the chairman of Chase Manhattan Bank and from the Rockefeller oil dynasty. The other founder was a political scientist from Columbia University named Zbigniew Brzezinski. The two of them founded the Trilateral Commission.

الحصاة كائن كامل متوائمة مع ذاتها واعية لحدودها مليئة بدقة بمعنى حصوىّ برائحة لا تذكّر المرء بشىء لا ترعب أحداً لا تثير رغبة حرارتها وبرودتها متعادلتان ومفعمتان بالوقار أشعر بندم ثقيل حين تمسك بها يدى وجسدها النبيل يخترقه دفء زائف -لا يمكن تدجين الحصوات ستنظر إلينا حتى النهاية بعين هادئة شديدة الصفاء

Traktuj swoją ukochaną, jakby zawsze była twoją narzeczoną, nieustannie jej się przypodobuj, zachowaj uprzejmość, pogodę, grzeczność, takt we wszystkich sytuacjach, troszcz się o jej wypoczynek i rozrywkę, unikaj sprzeczania się o drobiazgi, traktuj żonę jak równego sobie partnera, pomagaj jej w pracach domowych i opiekowaniu się dzieckiem.

Zbigniew Brzezinski, head of our National Security Council, writes that ‘with the use of computers, human behavior itself will become more determined and subject to deliberate programming,’ and that ‘it will soon be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen.’ “I believe that the Nazis and the Minutemen and the Christian movement are going to get very strong, and at the same time there’s going to be a massive depression. I see large masses of people around the world being deliberately starved every day. I see terrible things happening to reduce the population of this earth, so that those who control the corporations don’t have to provide for the needs of the poor.

he wanted to understand to the very end —Pascal's night —the nature of a diamond —the melancholy of the prophets —Achille's wrath —the madness of those who kill —the dreams of Mary Stuart —Neanderthal fear —the despair of the last Aztecs —Nietzsche's long death throes —the joy of the painter of Lascaux —the rise and fall of an oak —the rise and fall of Rome

Zwykła izba, zwykłe sprzęty: piec z okapem i fortepian, stół, patefon i kołyska, trąbka, pompka i zegarek.

W gimnazjum panował kult rozumu, ale, jak wiadomo, nic bardziej nie wpływa na rozwój okultyzmu niż urzędowy racjonalizm.

The great challenge today is not hegemony, but turmoil, and coping with the latter requires strategic vision, firmness of purpose, and a clear sense of our values (p. 190).

cemeteries grow larger the number of defenders shrinks but the defense continues and will last to the end and even if the City falls and one of us survives he will carry the City inside him on the roads of exile he will be the City we look at the face of hunger the face of fire the face of death and the worst of them all—the face of treason and only our dreams have not been humiliated

حكاية روسية كبر أبونا القيصر الصغير وصار عجوزاً، عجوزاً جداً، لدرجة أن ليس بمقدوره الآن خنق حمامة بيديه. وكان متربعاً على عرشه ذهبياً وفاتراً. طالت لحيته فقط، حتى لامست الأرض وأكثر. تولى الحكم بعد ذلك شخص آخر، لم يكن معروفاً. اختلس أناس فضوليون النظر عبر نوافذ القصر لكن كريفونوسوف حجب النوافذ بمشانق. ولهذا لم يكن بمستطاع أحد رؤية أي شيء سوى المشنوقين. في النهاية ولحسن الحظ مات أبونا القيصر الصغير. دقت الأجراس طويلاً. ومع ذلك لم يشيعوه. أخذ قيصرنا شكل كرسي العرش. اندمجت قوائم العرش بساقي القيصر تماماً. وصار ذراعه ومسند الكرسي واحداً .كان من المستحيل انتزاعه. وبدفن القيصر مع العرش الذهبي- يا له من عار. زبيجنيو هربرت

W każdym domu powinny być książki o seksie. Albo płyty DVD. W moim są. Jeśli uczymy się gotowania, kupujemy książkę kucharską, dlaczego nie kupimy podręcznika kochania, jeśli chcemy być doskonałymi kochankami?

The three grand imperatives of imperial geostrategy are to prevent collusion and maintain security dependence among the vassals, to keep tributaries pliant and protected, and to keep the barbarians from coming together.

The anti-psychiatrists held various, sometimes conflicting views but one particular line of reasoning is attributable to all of them—they all pitched their arguments against the power of the psychiatric establishment. They argued that the psychiatric diagnosis is scientifically meaningless. It is a way of labeling undesirable behaviour, under the guise of medical intervention. Those who are diagnosed ill are subjected to treatment which is a violation of human rights and dignity. The situation amounts to psychiatry having a mandate to declare some citizens unfit to live in an ‘ordinary’ community. It claims to cure but the supposed beneficiaries of that cure are often held in hospitals against their will. Within a structure like this it is impossible to understand the real nature of mental suffering and it is just as impossible to develop a coherent system of help.

The carpet is too soft. Also the palm tree in the lobby is unbelievable. For a long time the Maitre looks at our faces, shuffling passports in his hands. "Such dark-ringed eyes, such dark-ringed eyes. I knew a merchant from Smyrna, who also had a false front tooth. Nowadays one has to be terribly careful: informers and scorpions are everywhere." In the elevator we stand facing the mirror, but already at the first jerk we see silvery mildew in the place of our faces.

However, if Moscow regains control over Ukraine, with its 52 million people and major resources as well as its access to the Black Sea, Russia automatically again regains the wherewithal to become a powerful imperial state, spanning Europe and Asia.

Geopolitical pivots are the states whose importance is derived not from their power and motivation but rather from their sensitive location and from the consequences of their potentially vulnerable condition for the behavior of geostrategic players.

When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Saudi regime saw an opportunity to rid itself, however temporarily, of the holy warriors it had nurtured for nearly a century. With economic and military support from the United States and tactical training provided by Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, the Saudis began funneling a steady stream of radical Islamic militants (known as the Mujahadin, or “those who make jihad”) from Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East into Afghanistan, where they could be put to use battling the godless communists. The intention, as President Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, famously put it, was to “give the USSR its own Vietnam” by keeping the Soviet army bogged down in an unwinnable war in hostile territory. The United States considered the Mujahadin to be an important ally in the Great Game being played out against the Soviet Union and, in fact, referred to these militants as “freedom fighters.” President Ronald Reagan even compared them to America’s founding fathers.

I kobietom, i mężczyznom radzę głębsze zainteresowanie się mądrymi kulturami erotycznymi Wschodu. Nie chodzi mi tylko o dokładne przestudiowanie Kamasutry (chociaż to też), ale o dbałość o zachowanie charakteru odświętnego współżycia seksualnego, troskę o jego jakość, a nie ilość.

Ech, oma, mogliście się bardziej postarać. Na świadectwie żadnego „bardzo dobrego”, „dobry” dostaliście tylko z ustnego niemieckiego, kaligrafii i katechizmu, a od niższych stopni gęsto. Zachowanie „godne pochwały”, to dobrze, ale już z oceną za pracowitość czy obecnością mogło być lepiej.

At the same time that he was devising a response to the Afghanistan incursion, Carter had to confront a much more acute crisis in Iran, where he had brought the greatest disaster of his presidency down upon himself. In November 1977, he welcomed the shah of Iran to the White House, and on New Year’s Eve in Tehran, raising his glass, he toasted the ruler. Though the shah was sustained in power by a vicious secret police force, Carter praised him as a champion of “the cause of human rights” who had earned “the admiration and love” of the Iranian people. Little more than a year later, his subjects, no longer willing to be governed by a monarch imposed on them by the CIA, drove the shah into exile. Critically ill, he sought medical treatment in the United States. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance warned that admitting him could have repercussions in Iran, and Carter hesitated. But under pressure from David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger, and the head of the National Security Council, Zbigniew Brzezinski, he caved in. Shortly after the deposed shah entered the Mayo Clinic, three thousand Islamic militants stormed the US embassy compound in Tehran and seized more than fifty diplomats and soldiers. They paraded blindfolded US Marine guards, hands tied behind their backs, through the streets of Tehran while mobs chanted, “Death to Carter, Death to the Shah,” as they spat upon the American flag and burned effigies of the president—scenes recorded on camera that Americans found painful to witness.

Brzeziński: According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the mujahideen began during 1980, that is, after the Soviet army had invaded Afghanistan on December 24, 1979. But the truth, kept secret up to now, is quite different: it was in fact on July 3, 1979, that President Carter signed the first directive on clandestine aid to opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And on that very day I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my view aid was going to bring about a Soviet military intervention. Nouvel Observateur: When the Soviets justified their intervention by claiming that they meant to counter a secret intervention by the United States in Afghanistan, no one believed them. However there was some truth in that.... You don't regret anything today? Brzeziński: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. Its effect was to draw the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day the Soviets officially crossed the border I wrote to President Carter roughly the following: "We now have the opportunity to give the USSR its own Vietnam War". [warmonger's unrepentant admission that the U.S. overthrew the government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan and sold it as a Soviet invasion]

Russian commentators welcomed this development, viewing it as a positive shift in the global correlation of power and as an appropriate response to America’s sponsorship of NATO’s expansion. Some even sounded gleeful that the Sino-Russian alliance would give America its deserved comeuppance. However, a coalition allying Russia with both China and Iran can develop only if the United States is shortsighted enough to antagonize China and Iran simultaneously.

Nieraz słyszy się opinie, iż atrakcyjność współżycia i partnera przemija, a pozostaje przyzwyczajenie, obowiązki, dom, dzieci. Zakłada się tu zatem, iż atrakcyjność erotyczna jest z natury czasowa i całkowite poznanie ciała partnera oraz wiele przeżytych orgazmów wyczerpują możliwości rozwoju. Tego typu pogląd potwierdza się wówczas, gdy partnerzy zatrzymali się w swym rozwoju i samorealizacji seksualnej, w erotyzmie tkwi bowiem tyle możliwości, iż wystarczy ich na całe życie seksualne.

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire. Russia without Ukraine can still strive for imperial status, but it would then become a predominantly Asian imperial state, more likely to be drawn into debilitating conflicts with aroused Central Asians, who would then be resentful of the loss of their recent independence and would be supported by their fellow Islamic states to the south.

Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains. Its fate confirmed a scholar’s apt observation that [e]mpires are inherently politically unstable because subordinate units almost always prefer greater autonomy, and counter-elites in such units almost always act, upon opportunity, to obtain greater autonomy. In this sense, empires do not fall; rather, they fall apart, usually very slowly, though sometimes remarkably quickly.

Svoje dogodovštine zabavno opisuje engleski crtač Edvard Dodvel. Radio je na Akropolju, koristeći camera obscura - prototip fotografskog aparata koji je davao umanjenu sliku građevina, mada je na crtežu omogućavao očuvanje proporcija reprodukovanih spomenika kulture. 'Jednoga dana, dok sam crtao Partenon svojom camera obscura, vidno uznemireni komandant garnizona upitao me je kakve to čarolije izvodim svojom neobičnom mašinom.' Dodvel pokušava da mu objasni, demonstrirajući rad svoga aparata. Turski oficir je i time preneražen. 'Videći to (...) promenih ton i zapretih mu da ću ga staviti u svoju crnu kutiju ako mi bude smetao i malretirao me.' Od tog vremena Dodvel je neometano radio.

Heinz Rogmann przyjeżdża z Breslau na polsko-niemieckie pogranicze w połowie lat trzydziestych, po jego podróży pozostanie album Schlesiens Ostgrenze im Bild (Granica wschodniego Śląska w fotografiach). Wertuję go, żeby znaleźć odcinek biegnący nieopodal Ostropy. Jest. Na jednym zdjęciu linia podziału idzie przez środek studni, na innym przez posesję: na terytorium Niemiec stoi dom, ale już tę część obejścia, na której stoi wygódka, alianci przyznali Polsce. W Niemczech się je, w Polsce wysrywa. Na najbardziej ikonicznej fotografii Rogmanna przy płocie stoi mężczyzna. Pilnuje małego dziecka, dziecko bawi się na ulicy. Dzieli ich metr. On wraz z podwórkiem znajdują się w II Rzeczypospolitej, dziecko w III Rzeszy.

Sa teme pejzaža pero mi je često klizilo u oblast legendi i istorije. Tu vezu koja postoji između pejzaža Grčke, njene umetnosti i verovanja ne uspevam ni samom sebi da objasnim. Samo mi snažna intuicija govori da grčki hram, skulptura i mit organski izrastaju iz zemlje, mora i planina. Iskušenje da ga opisujem završava se neuspelom deskripcijom. Nije mi čak pošlo za rukom da izrazim oblik i boju masline. A dobro mi je poznata bar jedna koja raste pored zida koji ograđuje Minosovu palatuu Knososu. Pogledom sam izbrojao svaki njen list i u sebi nosim precizno njene obrise. Međutim, treba biti Direr i od tog doživljaja sazdati predmet. Opisati samo jednu padinu planine: kresavo zelenilo žbunja, sa donje strane srebrnkasto. Tri bele kuće. Vinograd koji podseća na dugačak, nizak venjak. Odozgo zelenilo posuto plavetnilom, a između špalira vinove loze hladna, safirna stud. Mali pravougaonik veoma zvučne bronzane boje, kakvu ujesen ima lišće grab. I konačno, malčice iznad toga - kamen i retka trava. Htedoh to da opišem.

I Would Like to Describe - 1924-1998 I would like to describe the simplest emotion joy or sadness but not as others do reaching for shafts of rain or sun I would like to describe a light which is being born in me but I know it does not resemble any star for it is not so bright not so pure and is uncertain I would like to describe courage without dragging behind me a dusty lion and also anxiety without shaking a glass full of water to put it another way I would give all metaphors in return for one word drawn out of my breast like a rib for one word contained within the boundaries of my skin but apparently this is not possible and just to say - I love I run around like mad picking up handfuls of birds and my tenderness which after all is not made of water asks the water for a face and anger different from fire borrows from it a loquacious tongue so is blurred so is blurred in me what white-haired gentlemen separated once and for all and said this is the subject and this is the object we fall asleep with one hand under our head and with the other in a mound of planets our feet abandon us and taste the earth with their tiny roots which next morning we tear out painfully

Ubrzo sam shvatio da u meni postoje dva Akropolja, dnevni i noćni. Prvi je bio analitičan, s vodičevom glavom. Provera plana, istraživanje strukture celine, dodirivanje kamenja, zamišljanje onog što je propalo - poput studije anatomije iskopane životinje. Prvi pokušaji privikavanja, uspostavljanja ličnog odnosa prema spomeniku kulture. "Za sebe" sam izabrao Propileje i Partenon. Zbog njihove energije, mase i reda. Hram Nike je bio suviše filigranski da bih osetio njegovu kamenu materijalnost - pre je na mene ostavljao utisak uspešne kopije, Dobro urađenog zadatka na klasičnu temu. Najteže mi je bilo da uspostavim vezu s Erehtejonom. Portik karijatida ružile su metalne cevi podupirača koji su građevini oduzimali smisao i planiranu lakoću. Same karijatide, ubogaljene i lišene šarma, kao da su se zaustavile na pola puta između ljudskog oblika i stuba. Nad tamnim jezerom starih atinskih kultova ovaj jonski hram kao da govori o nemogućnosti povezivanja drevne vere s novim arhitektonskim izrazom. Drugi Akropolj - noćni, upaljen na nebu, koji se u celosti prepušta pogledima. Sedao bih na Brdo Muza, kraj samog spomenika Filopapu. Odozdo, iz sirotinjske četvrti Plaka, dopirala je banalna, svakodnevna vreva. U mraku se sjajio kreč belih kuća. U vazduhu se dizao miris ovčetine, maslina i belog luka. Akropolj u vencu mirisa crnog luka. Levo, među drvećem, svake večeri izvođena je predstava 'Son et Lumiere'. Sofoklovi horovi plakali su čas na francuskom, čas na engleskom. Svetlost je iz noći izvlačila fragmente svetog brežuljka. Crveni sjaj reflektora imitirao je požare. Tada je za mene Akropolj bio skulptura; ne arhitektonski kompleks, već skulptura. Ruinirana južna kolonada Partenona, nisko posečena stabla stubova izazivali su grč u mom srcu. Kamenje se borilo s napadom pustoši. S estetskog plana Akropolj se u mojoj svesti prebacio na plan istorije. Nisam mogao da ponovim ni uzbuđenje, ni molitve humaniste iz prošlog veka.(...) Akropolj koji mi se nalazio pred očima, sveden na skelet, odran od tela, za mene je istovremeno bio delo volje, reda i haosa, umetnika i istorije, Perikla i Morosinija, Iktinoja i lupeža. I, dodirujući pogledom njegove rane i ožiljke, osetio sam kako se u meni mešaju divljenje i sažaljenje. Ako sam crpeo posebno osećanje sreće u opasnosti, po svoj prilici to je proisticalo iz svesti o toj neobičnoj činjenici da sam "uspeo da stignem", pre nego što podelimo sudbinu svih ljudskih tvorevina na mračnom poluostrvu vremna, pre nepoznate budućnosti.

Grčki pejzaž mi se obratio patetičnim glasom mita i tragedije. Bio je to dominantan utisak. Nametljivo prisustvo gole zemlje, veoma izreckanih stenovitih masa, pojačano je oskudnošću biljnog pokrivača. Veliko drveće - topola, tisa, hrast - raste u dolinama, mada se šuma uvek povlači pred pritiskom niskog, bodljikavog žbunja koje nadvladava sve. Iz istorijskih predanja znamo da su danas gole padine kritskih planina nekada pokrivale kedrove i kiparisove šume. Okolina Olimpije bila je bogata topolama, međutim one su završile kao žrtva propisa koji je glasio : "To je jedino drvo koje se sme koristiti za prinošenje žrtava." Zbog toga je današnji grčki pejzaž divljiji i lišeniji zelenila nego u drevna vremena. Naravno, postojanje malih oaza tišine - gajeva, u kojima možemo zamišljati Sokrata kako razgovara sa Fedrom. Čak u centru Atine, gradu punom buke i grozničavog trčkaranja, može se skrenuti sa prometne Ulice Leoforo Dioniziju Areopagitu koja vodi duž podnožja Akropolja i uroniti u zavojite staze Brežuljka Muza. Dobro je doći tu uveče i bluditi između mirti, lovorovog žbunja i kiparisa. Drveće nije veliko, otprilike je u visini muškarca, u mraku je čovekoliko, tako da dobijaš želju da ga pozdravljaš, zastaješ i razgovaraš s njim. To posebno osećanje bratimljenja sa prirodom, prirodna lakoća s kojom ova poprima ljudske oblike, nisam iskusio ni u jednoj drugoj zemlji. Zbog toga mi se čini da metamorfoza drveća u šumske boginje (drijade) nije bila samo rezultat bujne mašte Grka, već pre oštroumne opservacije i preciznog razumevanja znakova koje šalje okolni svet.

has observed that bin Laden in twenty of his twenty-four major speeches, both before and after 9/11, justified violence against America by citing its support for Israel.

Nasza atrakcyjność erotyczna wynika z umiejętności podobania się, budzenia podniecenia, i fakt że mieszkamy razem wcale nas od tego nie zwalnia

poza tym jak zwykle handel i kopulacja

For both Poland and Ukraine, the best way to get the West’s attention has been to stress their impact on Russia. Nineteenth-century liberals argued that unless Russia freed Poland, it would never be able to undertake its own constitutional reform. The effort of holding down its most intransigent colony trapped Russia in the role of tyrannical autocracy, hurting ordinary Russians as much as the Poles themselves – hence the slogan of the 1831 Polish rebellion: ‘For our freedom and yours.’ The argument Poland used in pleading for military aid last century, Ukraine employs in making the case for IMF funds and diplomatic support today. The (Polish-bom) American Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski writes that ‘without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

Odmienność pociąga może nieraz drażnić ale jest fascynująca. Ludzie którzy mówią o sobie -'Jesteśmy jak brat i siostra' mają marne szanse na udane życie intymne

Psychopata koncetruje się na sobie. Nie ma empatii. Manipuluje ludźmi dla swojego dobra. Jest bardzo inteligentny. To, co w tych związkach uderza, to kompletny brak zainteresowania uczuciamiami partnerki.

Samo położenie reki partnerki na swoim członku w erekcji i wypowiedzenie zdania: "Zobacz maleńka jak na mnie działasz" - nie jest dla kobiety wystarczającą pokusą

O duhovnom stanju stanovnika Atine s krajem XII veka govore sačuvane poslanice Mihajla Akominatosa koji je tridesetak godina bio atinski arhiepiskop. Rezidirao je na Akropolju, a službu služio u Partenonu - prema tome, može se smatrati da je postigao vrhunac snova svih humanista. Taj erudita, hrišćanin i poštovalac antike i svojim kitnjastim propovedima mešao je mitologiju sa Svetim pismom, egzaltirano nazivajući svoje ovčice "zlatnim semenom", odnosno da su verom dužne da moralno nadvise Ajaksa, Diogena, Perikla i Temistokla. Sirote nepismene ovčice (osim toga etnčki prilično složena mešavina koja govori jezikom veoma udaljenim od klasičnog grčkog) slušale su i ništa nisu razumele. Arhiepiskom Mihajlo nije mogao da se uzdrži i ne izrazi razočarenje: "O, Atino - majko mudrosti, kako si nisko skliznula u neznanje! Kada čitam svoje propovedi, tako jednostavne i lišene izveštačenosti, čini mi se da govorim nerazumljive stvari, na stranom jeziku nekakvih Persijanaca ili Skita.

Ukraine, a new and important space on the Eurasian chessboard, is a geopolitical pivot because its very existence as an independent country helps to transform Russia. Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be a Eurasian empire.

Економічне самозаперечення (тобто витрати на оборону) і людська самопожертва (втрати навіть серед професійних військовиків), чого вимагає таке напруження, — несумісні з демократичними інстинктами. Демократія ворожа імперській мобілізації.

Ani mam witać się ani żegnać żyjemy na archipelagach a ta woda te słowa cóż mogą cóż mogą książę

Ani nam witać się ani żegnać żyjemy na archipelagach a ta woda te słowa cóż mogą cóż mogą książę

The prevailing wisdom that China is the next global power is breeding paranoia about China and fostering megalomania within China. Fears of an aggressive and antagonistic China that before long is destined to be the next global power are, at best, premature; and, at worst, they can become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.

History is much more the product of chaos than of conspiracy. —Zbigniew Brzezinski

The turmoil inherent in the shift from a rigidly traditional rural society to an urban one engenders an inclination to seek total answers to social dilemmas, thus causing ideologies to thrive in the industrializing society.

The ultimate objective of American policy should be benign and visionary: to shape a truly cooperative global community, in

The outspoken president of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev, went as far as to state publicly [...] that “any talk about the protection of Russians living in Kazakhstan reminds one of the times of Hitler, who also started off with the question of protecting Sudeten Germans.

America’s political institutions and free market economy created unprecedented opportunities for ambitious and iconoclastic inventors, who were not inhibited from pursuing their personal dreams by archaic privileges or rigid social hierarchies. In

Pašovi invited me to see his Grad (City), a collage, with music, of declamations, partly drawn from texts by Constantine Cavafy, Zbigniew Herbert, and Sylvia Plath, using a dozen actors;

Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.” —Former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski (11)   “I

For Yeltsin, Ukraine was always the key to Russian success, the country most likely to bolster Russia's future as a great power. Zbigniew Brzezinski, who served as President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser, wrote: “It cannot be stressed strongly enough that without Ukraine, Russia ceases to be an empire, but with Ukraine suborned and then subordinated, Russia automatically becomes an empire.”11 If Yeltsin's relations with Kravchuk

he no longer dreams of flight but of a fall that draws like lightning a profile of infinity

en 1980, el jefe del Consejo Nacional de Seguridad de los Estados Unidos, Zbigniew Brzezinski, presuntamente dijo esta frase: “No necesitamos a un Japón al sur de nuestra frontera”. Había que aplastar a México, mantenerlo como un generador de petróleo barato, bajo el control de los Estados Unidos,