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# Sheng Shicai

Sheng Shicai (simplified Chinese: 盛世才; pinyin: Shèng Shìcái; Wade-Giles: Sheng Shih-ts'ai) (1897–1970), born in Kaiyuan, Liaoning Provincein 1897, was the ruler of Xinjiang from 1933 until 1944.

## Quotes

* Chiang Kai-shek does not like my policies but he cannot do anything to me. I am too far away from his reach.
** Jeremy Brown, Paul Pickowicz (2007). Dilemmas of victory: the early years of the People's Republic of China. Harvard University Press. p. 186. ISBN 0674026160. Retrieved on 2010-6-28.
# Wang Yangming

Wang Shouren (26 October 1472 – 9 January 1529), courtesy name Bo'an, was a Chinese calligrapher, military general, philosopher, politician, and writer during the Ming dynasty. After Zhu Xi, he is commonly regarded as the most important Neo-Confucian thinker, with interpretations of Confucianism that denied the rationalist dualism of the orthodox philosophy of Zhu Xi. Wang was known as Yangming Xiansheng and/or Yangming Zi in literary circles; both mean "Master Yangming".

## Quotes

* There were contradictions in this philosophy, but these did not disturb its leading opponent, the gentle and peculiar Wang Yang-ming. For Wang was a saint as well as a philosopher; the meditative spirit and habits of Mahayana Buddhism had sunk deeply into his soul. It seemed to him that the great error in Chu Hsi was not one of morals, but one of method; the investigation of things, he felt, should begin not with the examination of the external universe, but, as the Hindus had said, with the far profounder and more revealing world of the inner self.
** Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Story of Civilization, Book I, Our Oriental Heritage (1935) (3. The Rebirth of Philosophy)

## About

* “I had for many years been a devout believer in Shushi says Nakaye Toju (1608-48), “when, by the mercy of Heaven, the collected works of Oyomei were brought for the first time to Japan. Had it not been for the aid of their teaching, my life would have been empty and barren.”
** Nakaye Toju as quoted in Will Durant, Our oriental Heritage
* In 1795 an edict went forth against the further teaching of the Oyomei philosophy; and so docile was the mind of Japan that from that time on Oyomei concealed itself within the phrases of Confucianism, or entered as a modest component into that military Zen which, by a typical paradox of history, transformed the pacific faith of Buddha into the inspiration of patriotic warriors.
** Will Durant, Our oriental Heritage
# Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar

Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar (born 2 December 1956). He was interior minister of Iran from 2009 to 2013 and minister of defense in the first cabinet of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from 2005 to 2009.

## Quotes

* We consider the capacity of the Syrian defensive forces as our own and believe that expansion of defensive ties would … help deal with threats of the enemies.
** Iranians find tenous refuge in Syria May 8, 2007
* Islamic Iran will resist … any kind of threat and will give a powerful answer to enemies and oppressors.
** Iran will resist "any threat": defense minister May 2007

## External links

* Biography of Mostafa Mohammad Najar for post of defense minister August 2005
# Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh, also spelled Mosaddeq, (Persian: محمد مصدق‎) (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician who served as the 35th Prime Minister of Iran, holding office from 1951 until 1953, when his government was overthrown in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état orchestrated by the United Kingdom's MI6.
An author, administrator, lawyer and parliamentarian, his administration introduced a range of social and political measures such as social security, land reforms and higher taxes including the introduction of taxation of the rent on land. His government's most significant policy, however, was the nationalization of the Iranian oil industry, which had been built by the British on Persian lands since 1913 through the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), later known as British Petroleum (BP).

## Quotes

* The moral aspect of oil nationalization is more important than its economic aspect.
* There is no political or moral yardstick by which the court can measure its judgment in the case of nationalization of the oil industry in Iran [...] under no condition we will accept the jurisdiction of the court on the subject. We cannot put ourselves in the dangerous situation which might arise out of the court's decision.
** Refusing to allow the International Court in the Hague to rule on his nationalisation of oil interests
* Yes, my sin — my greater sin and even my greatest sin is that I nationalized Iran's oil industry and discarded the system of political and economic exploitation by the world's greatest empire. This at the cost to myself, my family; and at the risk of losing my life, my honor and my property. With God's blessing and the will of the people, I fought this savage and dreadful system of international espionage and colonialism.
** Defending himself against a treason charge, on 19 December, 1953

## Quotes about Mohammad Mosaddegh

* Since the 1950s, several democratically elected socialist governments have nationalized large parts of their extractive sectors and begun to redistribute to the poor and middle class the wealth that had previously hemorrhaged into foreign bank accounts, most notably Mohammad Mosaddegh in Iran and Salvador Allende in Chile. But those experiments were interrupted by foreign-sponsored coups d'état before reaching their potential.
** Naomi Klein This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014)

## References

* Online biography, website of The Mossadegh Project
# Benedetto Croce

Benedetto Croce (25 February 1866–20 November 1952) was an Italian idealist philosopher, historian, and occasionally also politician.

## Quotes

* All history is contemporary history.
** Allan, George (1972). "Croce and Whitehead on Concrescence". Process Studies 2 (2): 95–111. DOI:10.5840/process19722215.
* Poetry is produced not by the mere caprice of pleasure, but by natural necessity. It is the primary activity of the human mind.
** Benedetto Croce, The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico. trans. R. G. Collingwood, London 1923.
* Language is articulated, limited sound organized for the purpose of expression.
** Benedetto Croce, quoted in: Geza Revesz, The Origins and Prehistory of Language, London 1956. p. 126

## Quotes about Benedetto Croce

* The mere economic action, the satisfaction of our immediate pleasure, though it satisfies us in relation to our individual end, yet it leaves constantly unsatisfied that which we are beside and beyond our individual determinations, our deepest and truest being. And this dissatisfaction will last until we succeed in lifting ourselves above the infinite succession of individual ends, and in inserting in them a universal value. This passage or conversion from the purely economic to the ethic, from pleasure to duty, is designed by Croce as the conquest of that peace which is not of a fabulous future, but of the present and real: in every instant is eternity, to him who knows how to reach it. Our actions will be always new, because always new problems are put before us by the course of reality; but in them, if we accomplish them with a pure heart, seeking in them what lifts them above themselves, we shall each time possess the Whole. Such is the character of the moral action...
** Raffaello Piccoli, Benedetto Croce: An Introduction to His Philosophy (1922)
# Alessandra Mussolini

Alessandra Mussolini (born 30 December 1962) is an Italian politician, the granddaughter of Benito Mussolini, and a former actress and model. She has been a member of the Italian Senate since 2013, was elected for The People of Freedom which later became part of Forza Italia, and since 2014 has been a Member of the European Parliament for FI.

## Quotes

* You are a bastard.
** 30 March 2019 to Jim Carrey
* Hi @JimCarrey do you know the history of #RosaPark?
** 31 March 2019 regarding Rosa Parks
# Matteo Salvini

Matteo Salvini (born 9 March 1973) is an Italian politician.

## Quotes

* I choose to change things from within. That is probably more difficult, it is longer and more complicated but it is a more concrete solution. To work from within to change monetary, financial, agricultural, commercial, industrial policies. We are growing, and we are allying with other European countries to change the E.U. from within. If we leave, it would be the end of hope.
** "'We Want to Change Things from Within.' Italy's Matteo Salvini on His Goal to Reshape Europe", Time (13 September 2018).
# Roberto Speranza

Roberto Speranza (born 4 January 1979) is an Italian politician of the Chamber of Deputies who serves as national secretary of Article One. Since 5 September 2019, he has been serving as Minister of Health in the government of Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and was later confirmed by Prime Minister Mario Draghi.

## Quotes

* We had prepared a plan in recent days (to deal with COVID-19), because it was clear what has happened could somehow happen.
** Roberto Speranza (2020) cited in "Italy announces first Covid-19 death; cases rise to 17" on New Straits Times, 22 February 2020.
# Eamon Gilmore

Eamon Gilmore (born April 24, 1955) is the current Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) and Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade of Ireland. He leads the Labour Party and is in coalition with the right-wing Fine Gael.

## Quotes

* It's Labour's way or Frankfurt's way.
** Gilmore's infamous election campaign slogan. The Irish Times
* It's a clear decision. It's a decision we respect and it's the end of the Lisbon Treaty. The speculation that there will be a second bite at it -- there won't be.
** Gilmore in public after the first Lisbon Treaty referendum. Sunday Independent
* That debate is over and the referendum has delivered a result.
** Gilmore following the rejection of the first Lisbon Treaty referendum by the Irish people. Sunday Independent
* Running around like a blue-behind bluebottle waving slogans.
** Slogan waver Eamon Gilmore on Richard Boyd Barrett's suggestion that the government's 12.5 per cent corporation tax is not being effectively implemented. The Irish Times
* You have a neck. You have a neck. You have a neck. You come in here with your orders from Belfast to make allegations. You have a neck.
** Gilmore indignantly dismissing criticism of “sharp corrupt practice” by Health Minister James Reilly from Mary Lou McDonald in the Dáil. Irish Independent

## Quotes about Gilmore

* Gilmore, who has led calls against a second referendum, has told the [American] embassy separately that he fully expects, and would support, holding a second referendum in 2009. He explained his public posture of opposition to a second referendum as 'politically necessary' for the time being.
** US Ambassador Thomas Foley in a WikiLeaks cable discussing the Lisbon Treaty. Sunday Independent
* From now until the day he leaves office, anything Eamon Gilmore says can be legitimately discredited with a single sentence: "Ah, yes, Minister, but is that what you're telling the American Embassy?"
** Gene Kerrigan in June 2011 in the Sunday Independent
# Alan Kelly

Alan Kelly (born 13 July 1975) is an Irish politician and author who has been the leader of the Labour Party since April 2020. He has been a Teachta Dála (TD) for the Tipperary constituency since the 2016 general election and a TD for the Tipperary North constituency from 2011 to 2016.
He previously served as Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and Deputy leader of the Labour Party from 2014 to 2016 and Minister of State for Public and Commuter Transport from 2011 to 2014. He was a Member of the European Parliament for the South constituency from 2009 to 2011 and a Senator for the Agricultural Panel from 2007 to 2009.

## Quotes

* Anybody who says that power isn’t attractive is telling you a lie. Of course it is. It’s obviously a drug. It’s attractive. It’s something you thrive on. It suits some people. It doesn’t suit others. I think it suits me.
** Irish Independent, 2016
* I don’t judge people. Everyone’s entitled to their own religion. I respect religion. I respect people’s views. I’m not a fan of crossing over religion and politics. My mother is devoutly religious and I respect her for that. Am I a practising Catholic? I am, I suppose, to some point. There’s some very good things about all kinds of religion. Obviously, there’s loads of bad things: we’ve a lot of legacy issues in this country from religion and that needs to be dealt with. The whole sense of community that comes from Church-going is a great thing.
** Hot Press, 2017
* Do I believe that prostitution should be legalised? No, I don’t. I think that it would open up other issues, which could be quite dangerous for society.
** Hot Press, 2017

### About Alan Kelly

* It is nothing if not ironic that the man that the Labour Party will most likely chose to save the day in the face of the relentless and inexorable electoral onslaught of Sinn Féin is someone who delights in his own nomme de guerre, AK47. Alan Kelly not only likes his soubriquet but relishes in his characterisation of someone who shoots from the hip, takes no prisoners and gets things done.
** Laois Today, 2021
* The Labour leader may have mellowed with age but the TD once dubbed AK47 still has targets.
** The Times (Ireland Edition), 2021
# Patrick Smith (politician)

Patrick Smith (17 July 1901 – 18 March 1982) was an Irish Fianna Fail politician who served in a number of cabinets under Éamon de Valera and Seán Lemass. He is notable for being the longest serving member of Dáil Éireann, the lower-house of the national parliament of Ireland.

## Quotes

* They gave us stepping-stones, but they would not walk on them.
** A comment made in the chamber of Dáil Éireann in January 1970 about the government under Michael Collins and W.T. Cosgrave in the aftermath of the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty. (Irish Times; The community values of an old Fianna Failer recalled; 22 October 2005)
# Leo Varadkar

Leo Eric Varadkar (born 18 January 1979) is an Irish Fine Gael politician who has been Taoiseach and Leader of Fine Gael since June 2017. He has been the Teachta Dála (elected representative) for Dublin West since 2007.

## Quotes

* The EU is not a prison — nobody has to stay, but it’s also a home and we’re not going to kick anybody out either.
** Quoted by The Times. In the Brexit black hole, no one can hear you scream (11 April 2019)
* I often wonder if some of the people who quote the Good Friday Agreement have actually read it, and the Good Friday Agreement is very explicit that the sovereign government, the UK government must be rigorously impartial in how it administers Northern Ireland and we all need to respect the fact that the aspirations of both unionist people and nationalist people are equal.
** Quoted by The Irish Times. No-deal Brexit is something to fear, says Taoiseach (1 August 2019)
# Lazar Kaganovich

Lazar Kaganovich (in Russian Лазарь Моисеевич Каганович), Lazar' Moiseevič Kaganovič, (22 November 1893 {November 10 O.S.} – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator.

## Quotes

* Every time they say that what's happening in the country is... Stalin's fault. It's the moral of every speech: Stalin's guilty, it was Stalin, Stalin, Stalin, everyone against him. But Stalin died 35 years ago! 35 years! What does that have to do with today's troubles?
** Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
* First, Stalin is disowned, now, little by little, it gets to prosecute socialism, the October Revolution, and in no time they will also want to prosecute Lenin and Marx.
** Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
* Iosif Vissarionovich was a really cautious man. Really cautious. A man who could see far.
** Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica
* Without Stalin's politics, we would never have achieved anything, we would all have died.
** Interview (5 October 1990) as quoted in La Repubblica

## Quotes about Kaganovich

* One former member of [the antiparty] group [Molotov] became an ambassador. True, the country [Outer Mongolia] may not be large, but it is an ambassadorship. I do not want to mention names, but you have some former Secretaries of State. I do not know where they are today, but they are not ambassadors. A second member of the group [Kaganovich] is now head of the state asbestos trust. Is that punishment, to head up a big monopoly? … It is better to confess to one's errors than to persist in them.
** Anastas Mikoyan, "Traveling With Mikoyan Quote By Quote" in Time magazine (26 January 1959)
# Khalid A. Al-Falih

Khalid A. Al-Falih, (Arabic: خالد الفالح Ḫālid al-Fāliḥ born 1960) is Minister of Energy, Industry and Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia and chairman of Saudi Aramco. He has previously served as the Saudi Arabian Health Minister

## Quotes
### Interview with Financial Times (18 November 2016)

    In an interview with Financial Times (18 November 2016)
* At his heart President-elect Trump will see the benefits and I think the oil industry will also be advising him accordingly that blocking trade in any product is not healthy.
* The US is sort of the flag-bearer for capitalism and free markets, the US continues to be a very important part of a global industry that is interconnected, that is dealing with a fungible commodity which is crude oil. So having equalisation through free trade is very healthy for oil.
* It is common that once presidents start governing then a lot more substance comes out.
* We need to address climate change, we need to limit the temperature rise globally to the maximum extent but we cannot do it at the expense of keeping people in poverty and stopping their economic development.
* If you think of economies like India and China and other energy intensive economies, I think the US has a lot more flexibility to meet Paris with less sacrifices, the US already enjoys a competitive advantage in terms of its energy costs and I think, given what is happening in technology and renewables, especially in the US capabilities in that regard, I think the US will find that provided everybody lives by Paris, the US would retain if not improve its global competitive position.

## External links

* Government of Saudi Arabia
* Saudi Aramco
* King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
* U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council
# José Hermano Saraiva

José Hermano Baptista Saraiva GCIH, GCIP (3 October 1919 – 20 July 2012) was a Portuguese professor, historian and jurist. He was most known as a television personality in Portugal, having been the author and presenter of several documentary series of historical divulgation in the last decades.

## Quotes

* Quem mal-preza o seu passado, mal-prepara o seu futuro.
** He who doesn't prize his past, ill-prepares his future.
** "A Alma e a Gente - Os Lusitanos", 24 Jan 2010
* Camões tinha razão. Um fraco rei faz fraca a forte gente.
** Camões was right. A weak king weakens a strong people.
** "A Alma e a Gente - D. Fernando, Fraco Rei, Forte Gente (D. Fernando, Weak King, Strong People)"
* Quem luta pela unidade para mim é grande. Quem se bate pela divisão para mim... (abana a cabeça reprovadoramente)
** He who fights for unity, for me is great. He who fights for division, for me... (shakes his head disapprovingly)
** "A Alma e a Gente - D. Maria II, A Rainha da Regeneração"
* Como sabem, as guerras fazem sempre enriquecer certas pessoas. Uma guerra tem duas utilidades: serve para uns morrerem e para outros ficarem ricos.
** As you know, wars always make certain people wealthier. A war has two functions: it serves for some to die and for other to become wealthy.
** "Horizontes da Memória - Mangualde: De à Cinco Mil Anos para Cá"
* Por trás de uma grande rainha está sempre um grande rei.
** Behind of a great queen is always a great king.
** "A Alma e a Gente - D. Maria II, A Rainha da Regeneração"
* Isso fez do português este tipo que nós somos. Nós não temos raça nenhuma. Não se pode falar na raça portuguesa. Se houvesse uma raça, nós éramos uma anti-raça. Feita com gente vinda de toda a parte ao longo de milhões de anos.
** That made the portuguese this type that we are. We don't have any race. There can be no talk about a portuguese race. If there was a race, we would be an anti-race. Composed of the people coming from all over during millions of years.
** "História Essencial de Portugal", episode 1
# Marta Temido

Marta Temido (born 2 March 1974) is a Portuguese politician who currently serves as the Minister of Health of Portugal since 15 October 2018.

## Quotes

* Immunity is greatly weakened by always remaining in a sterile environment. Even if you eat immunity-boosting foods, regularly leave your house for any park or beach. Immunity is increased by exposure to pathogens, not by staying home and consuming fried, spicy or sweetened foods and carbonated beverages, and not engaging in physical activity.
** Marta Temido (2022) cited in: "Clearing popular myths about the COVID-19 virus" in NewsIn.Asia, 21 January 2022.
# Grigory Sokolnikov

Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician.

## Quotes

* Sokolnikov: Or they would utilise us, if we became simply an appendage of German Fascism, which would utilise us and then throw us away like a dirty rag, we would be condemned, disgraced and proved to be utter nonentities. Vyshinsky: And did you expect any other fate than to be utilised by Fascism and then thrown away like a useless rag? Sokolnikov: Of course. If we had counted only on such an end we ought to have liquidated the bloc completely. Vyshinsky: You thought you could retain some independence? Sokolnikov: I am saying what we thought at that time. We figured that we had certain chances. Where did we see them? We saw them in the play of international contradictions. We considered that, let us say, complete sway in the Soviet Union could never be established by German Fascism because it would encounter the objections of other imperialist rivals, that certain international conflicts might occur, that we could rely on other forces which would not be interested in strengthening Fascism.
** Dialogue between state prosecutor Andrey Vyshinsky and Sokolnikov during his trial. Quote from Harpal Brar's Trotskyism or Leninism?, pp. 270.