8 ideas
| 23831 | The essence of power is illusory prestige [Weil] |
| 21097 | Modern monarchies are (like republics) rule by law, rather than by men [Hume] |
| 23830 | A group is only dangerous if it endorses an abstract entity [Weil] |
| 23829 | National leaders want to preserve necessary order - but always the existing order [Weil] |
| 23828 | National prestige consists of behaving as if you could beat the others in a war [Weil] |
| 23827 | Modern wars are fought in the name of empty words which are given capital letters [Weil] |
| 16713 | Philosophers are the forefathers of heretics [Tertullian] |
| 6610 | I believe because it is absurd [Tertullian] |