“The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.” ChallengesEconomicCitizensOffersBehaviorCompetitionComplexesPatternsCooperationDelicateEconomistPhysicistIntricateChemistStockholm Author:George Stigler
“When a person tries to act in accordance with his conscience, when he tries to speak the truth, when he tries to behave like a citizen, even in conditions where citizenship is degraded, it won't necessarily lead anywhere, but it might. There's one thing, however, that will never lead anywhere, and that is speculating that such behavior will lead somewhere.” TryingPersonsMightSpeakOne ThingConditionsCitizensBehaviorConscienceBehaveCitizenshipSpeak The Truth Author:Vaclav Havel
“The society will be dominated by an elite of persons free from traditional values who will have no doubt in fulfilling their objectives by means of purged techniques with which they will influence the behavior of people and will control and watch the society in all details. It will become possible to exert a practically permanent watch on each citizen of the world.” PeopleWorldMeanPersonsValuesWatchesDoubtInfluenceCitizensBehaviorDetailsTechniqueObjectivesTraditionalPermanentNo DoubtElitesFulfillingNwoTraditional Values Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Those who feel like they can intimidate our fellow citizens to take out their anger don't represent the best of America, they represent the worst of humankind, and they should be ashamed of that kind of behavior.” FeelsShouldKindAmericaWorstCitizensBehaviorFellowsAshamedHumankindIntimidating Author:George W. Bush
“Under the constitution, there was never meant to be a federal police force. Even an FBI limited only to investigations was not accepted until this century. Yet today, fueled by the federal government's misdirected war on drugs, radical environmentalism, and the aggressive behavior of the nanny state, we have witnessed the massive buildup of a virtual army of armed regulators prowling the States where they have no legal authority. The sacrifice of individual responsibility and the concept of local government by the majority of American citizens has permitted the army of bureaucrats to thrive.” WarStatesGovernmentTodayIndividualForceResponsibilitySacrificeCenturyCitizensDrugAuthorityBehaviorConceptsConstitutionArmyPoliceMajorityAcceptedLocalsRadicalThriveMassiveMeant To BeAggressiveInvestigationFederal GovernmentFbiEnvironmentalismProhibitionBureaucratsWar On DrugsAmerican CitizensNanniesRegulatorsLocal GovernmentPolice ForceIndividual ResponsibilityProwling Author:Ron Paul
“Our society is not held together primarily by law and its enforcement but most importantly by those who voluntarily obey the unenforceable because of their internalized norms of righteous or correct behavior. Religious belief in right and wrong is a vital influence to produce such voluntary compliance by a large number of our citizens.” TogetherLawBeliefReligiousNumbersInfluenceProduceCitizensBehaviorOur SocietyRighteousEnforcementNormLarge NumbersReligious BeliefCompliance Author:Dallin H. Oaks
“In the United States, if you buy a property and you're a good citizen, and you improve that property, what do they do to you? They tax you more. So they penalize you for good behavior.” IfsStatesUnitedUnited StatesCitizensTaxesBehaviorPropertyGood CitizenGood Behavior Author:Jesse Ventura
“Rome tolerated every abominable practice, embraced every foul idea in the name of freedom and the rights of the common man. Citizens no longer carried on deviant behavior in private, but pridefully displayed it in public. It was those with moral values who could no longer freely walk in a public park without having to witness a revolting display. What happened to the public censors who protected the majority of citizenry from moral decadence? Did freedom have to mean abolishing common decency? Did freedom mean anyone could do anything they wanted anytime they wanted, without consequences?” MenMeanIdeasWantedValuesNamesWalksCommonMoralPracticeRightsHappenedCitizensBehaviorConsequenceMajorityWitnessParksRomeDisplayProtectedDecencyFoulDecadenceCommon ManMoral ValuesCitizenryDeviantsCommon Decency Author:Francine Rivers
“Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal government. The government, and those who ran it, were not placed outside the law, but expressly targeted by it. Indeed, the Bill of Rights is little more than a description of the lines that the most powerful political officials are barred from crossing, even if they have the power to do so and even when the majority of citizens might wish them to do so.” IfsLittlesGovernmentMightLawPoliticalWishLinesPowerfulRightsCitizensBehaviorOrdinaryFunctionConstitutionBillsMajoritySupremeLimitationRanOfficialsDescriptionMost PowerfulFederal GovernmentCrossingsBill Of RightsOrdinary Citizens Author:Glenn Greenwald