When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
Tag: politics
Quote from Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince
Quote from Adam Smith
Quote from U.S. Congress
Quote from Rose Wilder Lane
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking and losing their lives to protect him. They are fighting the sea, fighting the land, fighting disease and insects and weather and space and time, for him, while he chatters that all men have a right to security and that some pagan god—Society, The State, The Government, The Commune—must give it to them. Let the fighting men stop fighting this inhuman earth for one hour, and he will learn how much security there is.
Quote from Ronald Reagan
Quote from Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
When people can get away with crimes just because they are wealthy or have the right connections, the scales are tipped against fairness and equality. The weight of corruption then becomes so heavy that it creates a dent that forces the world to become slanted, so much so — that justice just slips off.