The World Motivation
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
“The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.”
— Konrad Adenauer · Below
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.
The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.
Only the stupidest calves choose their own butcher.
Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics.
We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.
Growing up with dyslexia and struggling in the classroom because of it, I know how infuriating and frustrating it can be to be treated wrongly as though you're of below par intelligence.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.