lurqer,
Re: As a political cynic, I was fond of Hemingway's.
Más otros para su diversión:
FOUR ALLS:
The Four Alls was a mechanic's tavern in Philadelphia that held a rump convention for a Declaration of Independence in 1776. The sign on the tavern depicted four figures: a king with the motto "I govern all", a general with the motto "I fight for all", a minister labeled "I pray for all", and a laborer with the legend "I pay for all."
--Source: Kevin Phillips, "Wealth and Democracy"
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On Bush's game plan (else On tyranny): "A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain."
--Anatole France (1844-1924), pen name of Jacques Anatole François Thibault.
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"Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must first begin by subduing the freedom of speech."
--Ben Franklin
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On Selfishness - "The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy: that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
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On Radicalism: "The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair."
On State Terror: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
--H.L. Mencken |
