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INTELLECTUALS
INTELLIGENCE --- INTENTIONS

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INTELLECTUALS

see: "KNOWLEDGE"
see: "SCHOLARSHIP"


One historically important type of expert ... is the
intellectual, whom we may define as an expert
whose expertise is not wanted by the society at
large.
--Peter Berger (b. 1929)
American sociologist and Lutheran theologian.
_The Social Construction of Reality_ [1966]

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are
of more importance than values. That is to say,
their own ideas and other people's values.
--attributed to Gerald Brenan (1894—1987)
British travel writer and novelist.

To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about
intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
--Jacob Bronowski (1908—1974)
Polish-born mathematician and humanist.
_Magic, Science & Civilization_ [1978]

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
--attributed to Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist.

An 'intellectual' is a man who takes more words
than he needs to say more than he knows.
--attributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890—1969),
American Army General, supreme Allied commander WWII,
NATO commander, American President [1953—1961].

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Heathcote William Garrod (1878—1960)
British classical scholar.

During World War I, Garrod, already a distinguished
scholar, worked at the Ministry of Munitions in
London. The practice of handing white feathers
to able-bodied men who were not in uniform was
in full swing. Garrod was handed one by a women
in a London street with a withering comment, "I
am surprised that you are not fighting to defend
civilization." Garrod replied, "Madam, I am the
civilization they are fighting to defend.

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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A highbrow is the kind of person who
looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
--Sir A.P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert (1890—1971)
English writer and humorist.
_Uncommon Law_ [1935]

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The intellectuals and the young, booted and
spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_The True Believer: Thoughts On The Nature Of Mass Movements _ [1951]


Scratch an intellectual and you find a would-be
aristocrat who loathes the sight, the sound, and
the smell of common folk.
--Eric Hoffer (1902—1983)
American longshoreman, philosopher, and author who
received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1982.
_First Things, Last Things_, p. 75 [1971]

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The world's great men have not commonly been
great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table_ [1858]


That's all I claim for Boston — that it is the thinking
center of the continent, and therefore of the planet.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809—1894)
American physician, poet, and essayist.
_The Professor at the Breakfast Table_ [1860]

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All intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
James Boswell _The Life of Samuel Johnson_ [1791] "13 April 1773"

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign
policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals.
--Irving Kristol (1920—2009)
American founder of the neoconservative movement.
"American Intellectuals and Foreign Policy," in _Foreign Affairs_ # 45, [1966/67]

Every man gets a narrower and narrower field of knowledge
in which he must be an expert in order to compete with other
people. The specialist knows more and more about less and
less and finally knows everything about nothing.
--Konrad Lorenz (1903—1989)
Austrian zoologist.
In Larry Collins _Physical Hazards of the Workplace_, p. 107 [2001].

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It is, I think, true to say that the intelligentsia have been more wrong
about the progress of the war than the common people, and that they
were more swayed by partisan feelings. The average intellectual of
the Left believed, for instance, that the war was lost in 1940, that
the Germans were bound to overrun Egypt in 1942, that the Japanese
would never be driven out of the lands they had conquered, and that
the Anglo-American bombing offensive was making no impression
on Germany. He could believe these things because his hatred for
the British ruling class forbade him to admit that British plans could
succeed. There is no limit to the follies that can be swallowed if one
is under the influence of feelings of this kind.

I have heard it confidently stated, for instance, that the American troops
had been brought to Europe not to fight the Germans but to crush an
English revolution. One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe
things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.

--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
"Notes on Nationalism" [May 1945]

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Like many intellectuals, he was incapable
of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
--Marcel Proust (1871—1922)
French novelist.
_Remembrance of Things Past_, vol. 2 "Within a Budding Grove" [1919]

Intellectuals (especially professors) tend to become
silly because they are never called upon to make
decisions upon which very much depends.
--attributed to Leo Rosten (1908—1997)
Polish-born American writer and social scientist.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel
quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I
talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.
Quoted in Clifton Fadiman (ed.) _The Little, Brown Book of Anecdotes_ [1985].

In his first campaign, in 1976, [Daniel Patrick] Moynihan's
opponent was the incumbent, James Buckley, who playfully
referred to "Professor Moynihan" from Harvard. Moynihan
exclaimed with mock indignation, "The mudslinging has
begun!"
--George F. Will (b. 1941)
American columnist.
_One Man's America_ [2008]

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esoteric [es-uh-TER-ik], adjective:
1. Understood by or meant for only the select few
who have special knowledge or interest; recondite.
2. Belonging to the select few.
3. Private; secret; confidential.



INTELLIGENCE

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see: "KNOWLEDGE" for related links


It is impossible to underrate human
intelligence — beginning with one's
own.
--Henry Brooks Adams (1838—1918)
American historian & man of letters.
Letter to Margaret Chanler [30 January 1908].
(See Mencken, below.)

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in
ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
--Saul Bellow (1915—2005)
Canadian-born American novelist.
_To Jerusalem and Back_ [1976]

It's a scientific fact that for every year you live in California,
you lose two points off your I.Q. It's redundant to die in L.A.
--attributed to Truman Capote (1924—1984)
American writer and novelist.

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Carol II (1893—1953)
King of Romania [1930—1940]

While in exile, King Carol told his friend, the
British diplomat Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart,
that during his reign he had selected fourteen
of the brightest Rumanians for special training
in the government service. He sent seven to
England, and seven to the United States, to
study their political and economic systems.
'The seven who went to England were very
smart—they all achieved great success in the
government in Bucharest,' said Carol.

'What about the seven you sent to the States,'
asked Lockhart.

'They were even smarter,' said the king. They
stayed there.'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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She hung up and I set out the chess board. I filled
a pipe, paraded the chessmen and inspected them
for French shaves and loose buttons, and played a
championship tournament game between Gortchakoff
and Meninkin, seventy-two moves to a draw, a prize
specimen of the irresistible force meeting the
immovable object, a battle without armour, a war
without blood, and as elaborate a waste of human
intelligence as you could find anywhere outside
an advertising agency.
--Raymond Chandler (1888—1959)
American writer of detective fiction.
_The Long Goodbye_, ch. 24 [1953]

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large
intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men
must, I think, have great sadness on earth.
--Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821—1881),
Russian novelist, journalist, and short story writer.
_Crime and Punishment_, ch. V, pt. III [1866]

'Excellent,' I cried.
'Elementary,' said he.
--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859—1930)
Scottish-born writer of detective fiction.
_The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes_ [1894]
('Elementary, my dear Watson' is not found in any book by Conan Doyle
but is first found in P.G. Wodehouse _Psmith, Journalist_ [1915] ODTQ.)

Those wanting wit affect gravity and go by the
name of solid men; and a solid man is, in plain
English, a solid, solemn fool.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Aureng-Zebe_ [1676]

You see an awful lot of smart guys with dumb women,
but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb
guy.
--attributed to both Clint Eastwood (b. 1930),
American film actor and director, & Erica Jong
(b. 1942), American novelist.

One has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be
able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence
is when confronted with what exists. If such humility could
be conveyed to everybody, the world of human activities
would be more appealing.
--Albert Einstein (1879—1955)
German-American physicist who developed the
special and general theories of relativity.
Letter to Queen Elizabeth of Belgium [19 September 1932].

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to
hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same
time, and still retain the ability to function.
--F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896—1940)
American novelist.
"The Crack-Up" in _Esquire_ [February 1936].

I now know all the people worth knowing in America,
and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
--[Sarah] Margaret Fuller (1810—1850)
American critic, teacher, and woman of letters.
Quoted in "Littell's Living Age" [May 1852].

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All intelligent thoughts have already been
thought; what is necessary is only to try
to think of them again.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
_Proverbs in Prose_ [1819]


The intelligent man finds almost everything
ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749—1832)
German poet, novelist, and playwright.
Quoted in Stephen Spender (ed.) _Great Writings of Goethe_ [1958].

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Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
--Ernest Hemingway (1889—1961)
American novelist.
_The Garden of Eden_ [pub. 1986]

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of
your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness
of his children.
--Edgar Watson Howe (1854—1937)
American journalist and author.
_Country Town Sayings_ [1911]

Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain
characteristics of a vigorous intellect.
--Samuel Johnson (1709—1784)
English poet, critic, and lexicographer.
"Rambler" #103 (English twice-weekly journal 1750-1752)

The only means of strengthening one's intellect
is to make up one's mind about nothing — to
let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.
--John Keats (1795—1821)
English poet.
Letter to George and Georgiana Keats [24 September 1819].

I know I have a first-rate mind, but that's
no source of pride to me. Intelligent people
are a dime a dozen. But I am proud of
having character.
--Henry Alfred Kissinger (b. 1923)
German-born American diplomat.
Attributed, in Richard Valeriani _Travels With Henry_ [1979].

No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched
the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has
ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great
masses of the plain people. Nor has any one ever lost public
office thereby. The mistake that is always made runs the other
way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand,
and even, in many cases, to read and write, it is assumed that
they have ideas in their heads, and an appetite for more. This
assumption is folly. They dislike ideas, for ideas make them
uncomfortable.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"Notes on Journalism", in _Chicago Tribune_ [19 September 1926].
(See Adams, above.)

If a man's talk is commonplace and his
writing distinguished, it means that his
talent lies in the place from which he
borrows and not in himself.
--Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533—1592)
French moralist and essayist.
_Essays_ [1580], bk. 3, ch. 2

New Zealanders who leave for Australia
raise the IQ of both countries.
--attributed to Sir Robert Muldoon (1921—1992)
Prime Minister of New Zealand [1975—1984].

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From the Blue Earth (Minn.) Faribault County Register.

About 18,000 deer in the state will take part in a
postcard survey asking them to report information
about wild turkey sightings while hunting.
--_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007]

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We get too soon old and too late smart.
--Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

Erudition, like a bloodhound, is a charming thing
when held firmly in leash, but it is not so attractive
when turned loose upon a defenseless, unerudite
public.
--Agnes Repplier (1855—1950)
American author.
_Points of View_ [1891]

Knowing a great deal is not the same as being smart; intelligence
is not information alone but also judgment, the manner in which
information is collected and used.
--Carl Sagan (1934—1996)
American astronomer and author.
_Cosmos_ [1980]

Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are.
--George Santayana (1863—1952)
Spanish-born philosopher and critic.
"Against Prying Philosophers" in _Little Essays_ [1920].

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Great minds are like eagles, and build
their nests in some lofty solitude.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_ [1851], "Counsels and Maxims"


Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
"Our Relation to Others" sec. 23, in
_Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer_, tr. T. Bailey Saunders [1889]

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Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor:
For 'tis the mind that makes the body rich.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_The Taming of the Shrew_, IV, iii [1593—1594]

If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people.
If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people
who disagree with you.
--Aaron Sorkin (b. 1961)
American screenwriter and producer.
Advice given by Isaac Jaffe (Robert Guillaume) on "Sports Night" [TV show].

Intelligence alone, without wisdom
and empathy for suffering, is hollow.
--John G. Stoessinger (b. 1927)
Political analyst, teacher, and author.
_Why Nations Go to War_ [1974]

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that
what is false is false,—this is the mark and character
of intelligence.
--Emanuel Swedenborg (1688—1772)
Swedish scientist, philosopher, and theologian.
Quoted by Ralph Waldo Emerson in _Essays_,
First Series [1841] Essay # 9 "The Over-Soul".

An intelligent woman is a woman with
whom one can be stupid as one wants.
--Paul Valιry (1871—1945)
French poet.
"Mauvaises Pensιes et Autres" [1941]

Brains are never a handicap to a girl if she
hides them under a see-through blouse.
--attributed to Bobby Vinton (b. 1935)
American singer.

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Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds
discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
--anon.
Hyman G. Rickover in _The Saturday Evening Post_ of 28
November 1959 credits the saying to an "unknown sage".


TOPICAL

Not surprisingly, many of the same millions who call Bush dumb consider
Bill Clinton the White House's most brilliant occupant. ...

Indeed, the zeitgeist was not surprised when the Lovenstein Institute
of Scranton, Pennsylvania, led by Dr. Werner R. Lovenstein and Professor
Patricia F. Dilliams, released its study ranking the IQs of every president
over the last 50 years and found that first among them, with a 182, was
Bill Clinton. He was followed, in order, by Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy,
Richard Nixon, and Franklin Roosevelt (so much for 50 years).

As for the dumbest chief executives, they were, in descending order,
Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and — brace yourself — his son,
the current president, whose 91 charts in at exactly half of Clinton's.

The results were so alarming — ohmygod, our president is a complete
doofus! — they were forwarded via e-mail tens of millions of times, from
one concerned citizen to another, and impelled Garry Trudeau to compose
a Doonesbury strip around Bush's low "intelligence quota."

Just one problem. There is no Lovenstein Institute, no Dr. Lovenstein,
no Professor Dilliams. That the Internet ruse spread so quickly, without
anyone bothering to immediately verify the results (it was "a fact too
good to check," as they say at the New York Times), frankly explains
more about our culture than it does about our president.

--Joel Engel,
"Too Smart To Be So Dumb" in _The Weekly Standard_ [27 May 2003].

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A little boy went up to his father and asked: 'Dad, where did
my intelligence come from?'

The father replied. 'Well, son, you must have got it from your
mother, cause I still have mine.'

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Trivia: The animal with the largest brain
in proportion to its size is the ant.

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acuity [uh-KYOO-uh-tee], noun:
Acuteness of perception or vision; sharpness.

discursive (adj.)
1. Ranging over numerous topics, esp. in an orderly
or coherent way.
2. Proceeding by reason rather than intuition, as an
argument or discourse.
Synonyms: deductive
Similar: rational, logical, inductive, reasonable.

effulgent (adj.) [κ-'fκl-jκnt ]
Shining brilliantly, resplendent, emitting a brilliant light.

perspicacity (noun)
Keenness of mental perception or grasp; astuteness.
Synonyms: perceptiveness, perceptive, astuteness,
wit, discernment, acuity. Similar: acumen, awareness,
shrewdness, intelligence, sagacity, discrimination,
insight. Related: vision, aptitude, comprehension,
intuition, understanding, insight.

precocious (adj.)
Mentally advanced for age: developed or mature, especially
mentally, at an unusually early age, or showing such advanced
development.

sagacious (adj.) [sκ-'gey-shκs]
Having keen mental powers, shrewd,
sound in judgment, extremely wise.



INTENTIONS

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see: "MOTIVES"
see: "PLANS"
see: "PURPOSE"


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Hell is full of good intentions or desires.
--St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090—1153)
Cistercian monk and mystic; the founder and abbot of the abbey of Clairvaux.
Attributed in St. Francis de Sales, Letter 74.

& see:

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.
_Jacula Prudentum_ (Outlandish Proverbs) [1640]

& see:

Hell is paved with good intentions.
--attributed by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
to Richard Baxter (1615—1691).

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Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and
daily food. If one of you says to him, 'Go, I wish
you well; keep warm and well fed,' but does nothing
about his physical needs, what good is it?
--Bible
"James" 2:15—16

A truth that's told with bad intent,
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
--William Blake (1757—1827)
English poet.
"Auguries of Innocence", 1. 53 [1789]

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect
liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men
born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their
liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty
lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning
but without understanding.
--Louis Brandeis (1856—1941)
American lawyer and associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court [1916—1939].
In "Olmstead et al. vs. United States," 277 U.S. 438, 478 [1928].

The intent and not the deed,
Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly,
Does greatly.
--John Brown (1715—1766)
English clergyman and author.
_Barbarossa_ V, ii [1735]

The evil that is in the world almost always comes
of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much
harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
--Albert Camus (1913—1960)
French novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
_La Peste_ ("The Plague") [1947]

There's nothing we read of in torture's inventions
Like a well-meaning dunce with the best of intentions.
--James Russell Lowell (1819—1891)
American poet, critic, essayist, and diplomat.
_A Fable for Critics_ [1848]

If I had the time ... I should like to write an essay
on the books that have quite failed of achieving
their original purposes, and are yet of respectable
use and potency for other purposes. For example,
[...] turn to "Gulliver's Travels." The thing was
planned by its rev. author as a devastating satire,
a terrible piece of cynicism; it survives as a story-
book for sucklings.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
_Damn! A Book of Calumny_ [1918]

Neville Chamberlain's politics of appeasement were, as far as we can
judge, inspired by good motives; he was probably less motivated by
considerations of personal power than were many other British prime
ministers, and he sought to preserve peace and to assure the happiness
of all concerned. Yet his policies helped to make the Second World War
inevitable, and to bring untold miseries to millions of men. Sir Winston
Churchill's motives, on the other hand, were much less universal in scope
and much more narrowly directed toward personal and national power,
yet the foreign policies that sprang from these inferior motives were
certainly superior in moral and political quality to those pursued by his
predecessor. Judged by his motives, Robespierre was one of the most
virtuous men who ever lived. Yet it was the utopian radicalism of that
very virtue that made him kill those less virtuous than himself, brought
him to the scaffold, and destroyed the revolution of which he was a
leader.
--Hans J. Morgenthau (1904—1980)
German-born American pioneer in the field of international relations theory.
_Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace_
Fifth Edition, Revised, [New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978]

Actions will be judged according to intentions.
--Muhammad (A.D. 570?—632)
Prophet to whom the religion of Islam was revealed.
_The Sayings of Muhammad_, tr. Abdullah Al-Suhrawardy [1941]

Everyone worked according to his capacity . ... Nobody shirked —
or almost nobody ... the behavior of the cat was somewhat peculiar.
It was soon noticed that when there was work to be done the cat
could never be found. She would vanish for hours on end, and
then reappear at meal-times, or in the evening after work was over,
as though nothing had happened. But she always made such excellent
excuses, and purred so affectionately, that it was impossible not to
believe her good intentions.
--George Orwell [Eric Blair] (1903—1950)
English novelist.
_Animal Farm_, ch. 3 [1945]

We all remember how many religious wars were fought for
a religion of love and gentleness; how many bodies were
burned alive with the genuinely kind and gentle intention
of saving souls from the eternal fire of hell.
--Karl Popper (1902—1994)
Austrian-born British philosopher of science.
"Utopia and Violence" [1948]

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... international humanitarian law evolved and expanded, the ICRC
[International Committee of the Red Cross] became the legally
recognized guardian of these regulations. And yet, the paradox of
the success of the Red Cross movement, the advance of international
law, and, after World War II, the worldwide diffusion of the concept
of human rights and new authority for it, is that all these developments
coincide not with a new era in which Kant's perpetual peace was
ushered in, but rather with the hideous course of the twentieth
century itself. No century has had better norms and worse realities.
In the period from the signing of the first Geneva Convention and
the subsequent conferences of 1899 and 1907 in The Hague, to the
outbreak of World War I, the rights of individuals in wartime were
expanded, "aggressive force" was outlawed, and protections for
civilians were expanded. Then came the mass slaughter in the
trenches of World War I and the Armenian genocide to make a
mockery of all that.

In the aftermath of that war, in a Europe shocked by the toll exacted
by gas attacks, another Hague conference outlawed the use of poison
gas and other forms of chemical and biological warfare. Three years
later, the Kellogg-Briand Pact outlawed war itself. Those whom the
gods wish to destroy they first allow to set international legal norms.
Nine years later, the Japanese army was murdering Chinese civilians
by the hundreds of thousands in Nanking. Four years after that, the
Germans put in motion the Final Solution. Four years after that,
twenty million Russians were dead and Europe was in ruins.

--David Rieff,
_A Bed For the Night, Humanitarianism In Crisis_ [2002]

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In all the ills which befall us, we look more at the intention
than the effect. A tile which falls from the house may hurt
more, but does not vex us so much as a stone thrown
designedly by an ill-natured hand.
--Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712—1778)
French philosopher and novelist.
_Reveries of a Solitary Walker_ [1782]

The hardest task in a girl's life is to prove
to a man that his intentions are serious.
--Helen Rowland (1875—1950)
American writer.
Attributed in _Women's Wit and Wisdom_
(pub. by Running Press) [1991].

Our intentions tend to be much more
real to us than our actions, and this
can lead to a great deal of misunder-
standing with other people, to whom
our actions tend to be much more real
than our intentions.
--E.F. Schumacher (1911—1977)
German-born British economist.
_A Guide For The Perplexed_ [1977]

All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
Layin' in the sun,
Talkin' bout the things
They woulda-coulda-shoulda done...
But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas
All ran away and hid
From one little Did.
--Shel Silverstein (1930—1999)
Ameican poet and songwriter.
"Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda" in _Falling Up_ [1996].

[T]o be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to
set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating, and drinking,
and sleeping, from one day and night to another, 'till he is starved
and destroyed.
--John Tillotson (1630—1694)
Archbishop of Canterbury [1691—1694].
Attributed in _The Ladies' Companion; or, Peoples' Annual_ [1845].

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every
assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong
to say that the Constitution was made to guard
the people against the dangers of good intentions.
There are men in all ages who mean to govern
well, but they mean to govern. They promise to
be good masters, but they mean to be masters.
--Daniel Webster (1782—1852)
American orator and politician.
Speech [15 March 1837] NYC, NY; in _Speeches and Forensic Arguments_ [1843].

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The souls of men of feeble purpose are
the graveyards of good intentions.
--unk.


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