“Remember, government is not an enlightened organization designed to promote public welfare. It is barbaric, uncivilized force…military and police power put to the service of the insiders who control it. Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example. And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.” WayUseGovernmentPainRememberExampleBalanceBuiltTraditionOrganizationConstitutionPoliceChecksTraditionalWelfareEnlightenedNormConstraintsProhibitionBegin AgainInsidersBarbaricUncivilizedPainkillersPolice PowerPublic Welfare Author:Bill Bonner
“The ideal society has yet to be built - one which balances nicely collective well-being and individual well-being.” WellsIndividualBalanceBuiltIdealsWell BeingCollectivesSocial ChangeIdeal Society Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words
“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.” EndsEyeFormAnimalExampleParticularBalanceEssentialsLateExpectationsBuiltBlindStructureSpeciesEnvironmentalLocalsUpsetSoilFuelToo LateRoutineVegetablesImmenseFossilsExtinctionStewardshipSuppliesFossil FuelEcosystemsBlind EyesImportation Book:Faith in the Public Square Source: Faith in the Public Square
“I think this is something that is naturally built in in people, a need for attention and a need to be special and we are always trying to find a balance.” PeopleThinkingNeedsTryingAttentionSpecialBalanceBuiltAlways Trying Author:Celeste Ng
“The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth.” EarthAmericaLeaderBalanceBuiltUltimateChecksPrizeInefficiency Author:Nathan Myhrvold
“Mostly I built golf courses the way I played golf, which was left-to-right. But I learned very rapidly that people wanted to see more than just the way I played golf and that I had to balance up what I was doing, right-to-left, left-to-right, etc.” PeopleWayWantedCoursesLeftBalanceBuiltGolfEtcGolf CourseDoing Right Author:Jack Nicklaus
“With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.” TryingReasonActionSchoolMotivationEffectsBalanceAchievementHigh SchoolConceptsBuiltTestsPrejudiceAcceptedScoreStatisticsAcademicTestingAffirmative ActionYaleAffirmativeClassmatesPrincetonTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.” TryingActionMotivationEffectsBalanceConceptsBuiltTestingAffirmative ActionAffirmativeClassmatesTest ScoresAcademic Achievement Author:Sonia Sotomayor
“You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof. You take him as he is, Mary Brenna, or you don't take him at all...adjustments can't be all made on one side, darling, else the balance goes off and what's being built just falls down.” MenWayMadeFallSidesRelationshipBalanceBuiltFaultsMaryRoofDarlingFalling DownPipeAdjustmentLeaks Author:Nora Roberts