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Swiss Political Science Review - Article and series by no means limited to publications on Switzerland or by Swiss authors. Debates on current issues. In German, French, Italian, and English.
Swiss Political Links - Resource on Swiss politics. Includes a directory of current political studies, political parties, organizations and government websites.
Switzerland & the Holocaust Assets - News digest and reference page on unclaimed assets from WWII and the related international dispute.
Campaign for an Independent and Neutral Switzerland (CINS) - Organization advocating strict Swiss neutrality and independence, expressed in non-participation in foreign conflicts and organizations. Timeline, goals, and selected essays on the European Union, United Nations, and other issues available.
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. -- Colin Powell A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out. -- Walter Winchell "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) "A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." (Henry B. Adams) Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is looking for a partner it doesn't turn to those who believe they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever sea Politics As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan. -- Count Galeazzo Ciano, The Ciano Diaries blah "Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Politics A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal. -- George H. Mead Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. - Henry Louis Mencken More light! -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, dying words Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true. -- Polish proverb Politics The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Remember your dreams. -- Maryanne Radmacher-Herhey blah "This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Politics Our marriage would have worked if we hadn't lived together. -- Joan Thompson Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln "Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent--that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) blah "Ideas are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and, following them, you reach yo My mother-in-law broke up my marriage. My wife came home from work one day and found me in bed with her. -- Lenny Bruce Politics Destiny is but a phrase of the weak human heart - the dark apology for every error. The strong and virtuous admit no destiny. On earth conscience guides; in heaven God watches. And destiny is but th "He who speaks of what he knows not only works hard to portray his ignorance." (Joseph Muchemi) Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy. -- Anonymous Politics All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. - Arthur Schopenhauer "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. - definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history...this century's history.... We all lived in this century. I didn't live in this century. -- Dan Quayle, then Indiana senator and Republic "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?" (Vince Lombardi) Politics Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. -- Virginia Woolf Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar. -- Countess of Blessington Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. -- Thornton Wilder Politics I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. -- Virginia Woolf "We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way." (Ani Difranco) "Frank and explicit; that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others." (Benjamin Disraeli, Sybil) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." (Thomas Jefferson, to Archibald Stuart, 1791) Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. -- Hector Louis Berlioz Politics The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people. -- G. K. Chesterton "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parent, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers. -- Socrates Politics "Drugs have done a lot of good. A lot of good songs have been written. 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. 'Dark Side of the Moon?' 100 dead kids. At least that many were conceived by people listening Work is the curse of the drinking class. -- Oscar Wilde I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. -- Albert Einstein If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry. -- Chekhov It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up. -- Vince Lombardi Politics Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another. -- H. L. Mencken What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones Politics Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure. -- George E. Woodberry The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. - Niels Bohr The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest. -- Ghandi Politics "Careful?! Was my mother careful when she stabbed me in the heart with a coat hanger while I was still in the womb?" (Trey Parker) "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." (George Washington) No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first. -- Cesare Pavese Politics Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is most important that you do it. -- Gandhi "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." (Douglas Adams) We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing. -- Seneca Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- George Clemenceau UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue without humility. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, 1911 Politics "The feminists used to say that chivalry and ladyhood were ways of keeping women down and preventing them from standing toe to toe with the guys. Now you've got a lot of women saying that if a guy is The most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. -- S. T. Coleridge Mistakes are the portals of discovery. -- James Joyce Politics "Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to t "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisi Most married couples, even though they love each other very much in theory, tend to view each other in practice as large teeming flaw colonies, the result being that they get on each other's nerves "Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one." (Samuel Beckett) There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot. -- Steven Wright Politics My good intentions are completely lethal. -- Margaret Atwood Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly. -- Rose Franken "The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns." (Marshall McLuhan) Politics "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. -- Paul Dirac Time is at once the most valuable and most perishable of all our possessions. -- John Randolph "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." (Thomas Paine) Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. -- Josh Billings Politics 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 "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out. -- Michel de Montaigne Politics Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.... -- Carl Zwanzig Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington The marriage of Marxism and feminism has been like the marriage of husband and wife depicted in English common law: Marxism and feminism are one, and that one is Marxism. -- Heidi Hartmann, The Unha Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. -- Milton Friedman Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer Politics If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them. -- Robert Graves The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church. -- G. K. Chesterton Thank heaven. A bachelor's life is no life for a single man. -- Samuel Goldwyn, immigrant-turned-famous-movie-producer, when told his son was getting married Politics
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