„There is one thing no head of a country can know, and that is: how good is his intelligence system? He finds out only by having it fail him.“

— Robert A. Heinlein

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„The country is safe, because we have a good intelligence service.“
— Augusto Pinochet
„The only thing that really matters is that there be an action of goodness, love and intelligence in living.“
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
„For the moment being, given that we live in society, the only duty of superior men is to reduce to a minimum their participation in the tribe's life. Not to read newspapers, or read them only to know about whatever unimportant and curious is going on.[…] The supreme honorable state for a superior man is in not knowing who is the Head of State of his country, or if he lives under a monarchy or a republic.All his attitude must be setting his soul so that the passing of things, of events doesn't bother him. If he doesn't do it he will have to take an interest in others in order to take care of himself.“
— Fernando Pessoa
„The good citizen must be a good citizen of his own country first before he can with advantage be a citizen of the world at large.“
— Theodore Roosevelt
„We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.“
— Richard Bach