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"Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives
by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats":
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/08/politics/venezuela-drug-boats-trump
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Fact check: Trump’s absurd claim that he saved 100,000 lives by attacking alleged Venezuelan drug boats

President Donald Trump has been using fictional figures to justify his controversial military strikes on alleged drug-smuggling boats in the Caribbean near Venezuela.

CNN

WIST Quotations Has Moved!Apr 29, 2025

A quotation from Joubert

Just as a savage will sacrifice his whole subsistence to his hunger, the despot sacrifices his authority to his love of power; his reign devours the reign of his successors.

[Comme le sauvage sacrifie sa subsistance à sa faim, le despote sacrifie sa puissance à son pouvoir; son règne dévore le règne de ses successeurs.]

Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 14 “Des Gouvernements [On Governments],” ¶ 16 (1850 ed.) [tr. Lyttelton (1899), ch. 13, ¶ 7]

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Mar 13, 2025

A quotation from Margaret Atwood

Perhaps he’s reached that stage of intoxication which power is said to inspire, the state in which you believe you are indispensable and can therefore do anything, absolutely anything you feel like, anything at all.

Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) Canadian writer, literary critic, environmental activist
The Handmaid’s Tale, ch. 37 (1986)

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WIST Quotations Has Moved!Feb 13, 2025

A quotation from Le Guin

The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more.

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
The Lathe of Heaven, ch. 9 (1971)

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