03-12-2023, 09:46 AM
(02-12-2023, 11:10 PM)zqwerty Wrote: “You’ve got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than anyone else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn’t; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists.”
GK Chesterton
Wow, ain't that the truth?
Great find Lilth7.
There are some really good ones out there.
"A new fascism promises security from the terror of crime. All that is required is that we take away the criminals' rights -- which, of course, are our own. Out of our desperation and fear we begin to feel a sense of security from the new totalitarian state."
Gerry Spencer
'A man’s character is most evident by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or reciprocate.'
Malcolm Forbes
" Its like any orthodoxy, let it run for a few centuries & what started as something that came from deep inside the human spirit turns into a set of holy texts that stultify thinking. Then people who yearn after the real experience as you do get palmed off with a set of rigid theological propositions - & all that's left to do is learn to read it"
Marion Molteno
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)