“But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone cannot command. Sovereignty of the people is, therefore, nothing but a fiction, and one which must in the long run prove destructive of individual liberties.” PeoplePersonsLongHandsRunningEarthIndividualFictionLibertyExerciseProveInstitutionsCommandDestructiveLong RunsSovereigntyIndividual Liberty Book:On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth Source: On Power: Its Nature and the History of Its Growth
“It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and came to an end when the individual again found it to his advantage to set forth on his own. We live at a time when everything conspires to push the individual into the fold.” EndsAgeFoundIndividualDarkLordAdvantageProtectionFlightAppropriateChaptersRecallsFoldsDark Ages Book:The Ethics of Redistribution Source: The Ethics of Redistribution
“The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State.” MatterStatesGovernmentIndividualWealthPoorPowerEconomyRichClearImagineEffectsBecomingEconomicsIncomeWealthyConsideringDistribution Book:The Ethics of Redistribution Source: The Ethics of Redistribution
