“We may well soon be subjected to anything that judges want to enforce.... The result will be an enforced inability of the states to pass laws that reflect the principled judgment of their own citizens....And as our Founders taught us so well, ...[that] will be the end of liberty and the establishment of tyranny in America.” WantWellsMayEndsStatesAmericaLawResultsLibertyTaughtJudgingCitizensJudgmentTyrannyEstablishmentFoundersInabilityTaught UsPrincipledWell Soon Author:Alan Keyes
“The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted.” PeopleWantShouldBelieveLongWould BeAmericaPoliticalTermCommonRecordsModernShould HaveVoteDemocraticWesternTrackElitesJudicialInvitingTrack RecordModern America Author:John Leo
“Towering genius...thirsts and burns for distinction; and, if possible, it will have it, whether at the expense of emancipating slaves or enslaving freeman.” IfsGeniusSlaveDistinctionExpensesThirstFreeman Author:Abraham Lincoln
“The conjunction of ruling and dreaming generates tyranny.” DreamTyrannyRulingConjunctions Author:Michael Joseph Oakeshott
“We are social animals and we have a hierarachical and unequal society. It is a class society, and the class system creates and perpetuates the social role of consumption. We display our class membership and solidify our class positioning in large part through money, through what we have. Consumption is a way of verifying what you have and earn.” WaySocialAnimalClassRolesDisplayConsumptionMembershipClass SystemSocial Roles Author:Juliet B. Schor
“It doesn't matter whether it comes in by cable, telephone lines, computor, or satellite. Everyone's going to have to deal with Disney.” MatterLinesDealsTelephonesCablesSatellitesOne Line Author:Michael Eisner
“The range of debate between the dominant U.S. [political] parties tends to closely resemble the range of debate within the business class.” PoliticalPartyClassDebateRangeDominantPolitical Parties Author:Robert Waterman McChesney
“The establishment can't admit [that] it is human rights violations that make ... countries attractive to business - so history has to be fudged, including denial of our support of regimes of terror and the practices that provide favorable climates of investment, and our destabilization of democracies that [don't] meet [the] standard of service to the transnational corporation.” HumansCountryPracticeSupportDemocracyRightsStandardsInvestmentClimateIncludingHuman RightsTerrorDenialCorporationsAttractiveEstablishmentRegimesViolationTransnational Corporations Author:Edward S. Herman
“Government exists for one purpose: to make things better for all people.” PeopleGovernmentPurpose Author:Eleanor Roosevelt
“Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.” PastHappinessInner PeaceComparisonShatteredInner Happiness Author:Douglas Horton