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2012 May 11
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"Here is the Golden Rule of sound citizenship, the first and greatest lesson in the study of politics: You get the same order of criminality from any State to which you give power to exercise it; and whatever power you give the State to do things FOR you carries with it the equivalent power to do things TO you." |
"Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power." |
"Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment.
Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice.
Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come.
Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk." |
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2012 May 10
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"We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going,
and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private,
which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use -
which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy,
until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it
presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came
by it. Look at it in politics." |
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators,
after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear." |
"If a million people say a foolish thing,
it is still a foolish thing." |
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2012 May 09
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"The media I've had a lot to do with is lazy.
We fed them and they ate it every day." |
"The mission of the Gestapo expanded steadily as, from 1933 onward,
'political criminality' was given a much broader definition than ever
before and most forms of dissent and criticism were gradually
criminalized. The result was that more 'laws' or lawlike measures were
put on the books than ever." |
"The threat of people acting in their own enlightened and rational self-interest strikes bureaucrats, politicians and social workers as ominous and dangerous." |
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2012 May 08
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"A reasonable action on the part of the majority is very rare, while the evidence of mob stupidity and brutality is overwhelming. The majority in power make laws for their own financial benefit, disregarding the interests of the minority, and when the weak minority, by adding to its numbers, becomes powerful, it, in turn, does the same thing; thus, by appealing to power to settle their conflicting interests, the conflict would go on forever. " |
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"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life,
but only a fool trusts either of them." |
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2012 May 07
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"The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators." |
"There's nothing so absurd
that if you repeat it often enough,
people will believe it." |
"Every reform, however necessary,
will by weak minds be carried to an excess,
that itself will need reforming." |
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