“It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.” GovernmentFightingGivenDutyHairTiredSakeClubsStupidityHypocrisyBad ThingsGrossSplittingScraping Book:Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works Source: Karl Marx, Frederick Engels: Collected Works
“His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.” MadeGovernmentAgeLyingCommonBlindCourtCommon SenseDumbHypocrisyBetrayComplaintsFlatteryDeafCalumny Book:A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century Source: A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
“The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.” MeanGovernmentAgeAmericaClassIgnoranceCommittedDebtFeaturesHypocrisyStringsCitizenry Author:Mark Steyn
“it is impossible for any mind of common honesty not to be revolted by the contradictions in their principles and practice. They inveigh against the governments of Europe, because, as they say, they favor the powerful and oppress the weak. ... [yet] you will see them with one hand hoisting the cap of liberty, and with the other flogging their slaves. You will see them one hour lecturing their mob on the indefeasible rights of man, and the next driving from their homes the children of the soil, whom they have bound themselves to protect by the most solemn treaties.” MenMindChildrenHomeHandsGovernmentNextHoursPowerfulCommonLibertyPrinciplesPracticeRightsImpossibleHonestyProtectEuropeWeakSlaveBoundsFavorsDrivingSoilHypocrisyContradictionSolemnCapsTreatiesOne HourLecturingFlogging Author:Frances Trollope