Laurence J. Peter Quotes
A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.
The Vatican Congregation of the Index had banned Greene’s Book, The Power and the Glory. See {598544}.
This courageous woman wrote many articles exposing some of the excesses of the Russians in coping with the Chechen conflict and the Chechen terrorists. She was also very critical of the Putin administration. She had just published an article exposing torture used by the Russians in dealing with terrorists. She was gunned down outside her apartment in Moscow. Politkovskaya was actually born in America and was an American Citizen as well as a Russian Citizen.
Spinoza was one of the most feared intellectuals in human history—feared that is by the established power structures. He is the only known person who was excommunicated by the Catholics, the Jews and the Muslims—all were forbidden to read his works. He was the enemy of authority and advocated personal reason as the guide for men.
He was referring to the non-democratic states of the Middle-East.
Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
