Michel de Montaigne Quotes
Amongst all other vices there is none I hate more than cruelty, both by nature and judgment, as the extremest of all vices.
Montaigne, Michel de. Essays of Montaigne. Translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt, Reeves and Turner, 1877, vol. 2, p. 131.
by recent Southern military losses Ironically, it was the Southern States and Southern politicians who had ever since President Andrew Jackson, illegally appropriated most of the Indian lands. It was the Supreme Court who ordered Jackson not to remove the Cherokee, but he and the other Southerners did so anyway with mild protest coming from the North. Neither section treated the Indians fairly, but the South had been much worse.
To most inventors, scientists, and technologists, nature is a destructive force and part of their job is to insulate man from nature.
This and other quotations like {640611} and {640616} show that the State Department knew that Mobutu Sese Seko, the man we were backing in the Congo had many very undesirable characteristics for a dependable foreign ally and one who would be given control of billions of American money. Yet nothing was done and we continued to support him despite the kleptocracy and the instability that undermined his regime and the United States along with it.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, also known as Lord of Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. His massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written.
