“... we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it. Power constantly asks questions and questions us; it constantly investigates and records; it institutionalizes the search for the truth, professionalizes it, and rewards it. ... In a different sense, we are also subject to the truth in the sense that truth lays down the law: it is the discourse of truth that decides, at least in part; it conveys and propels effects of power.” NeedsDifferentLawOrderAsksRecordsSubjectsEffectsProduceDemandFunctionLaysRewardsDiscourseObligedKnowledge And Power Author:Michel Foucault
“Our rulers will best promote the improvement of the nation by strictly confining themselves to their own legitimate duties, by leaving capital to find its most lucrative course, commodities their fair price, industry and intelligence their natural reward, idleness and folly their natural punishment, by maintaining peace, by defending property, by diminishing the price of law, and by observing strict economy in every department of the state. Let the Government do this: the People will assuredly do the rest.” PeopleStatesGovernmentLawCoursesNationsPeaceNaturalEconomyDutyIndustryFairsPropertyRewardsLeavingIntelligenceImprovementPunishmentFollyDepartmentRulersCommodityStrictIdlenessMaintainingObservingMaintaining Peace Author:Thomas B. Macaulay
“The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.” IfsMenLawSupportRewardsTerrorDebtListsWitFundParliamentArbitraryUnnoticedDisqualification Book:Burke, Select Works Source: Burke, Select Works
“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.” TwoGovernmentLawPartyOughtCompetitionRewardsMonopolyAntitrustAntitrust Laws Author:Ilana Mercer
“I cannot but take notice of the wonderful love of God to mankind, who, in order to encourage obedience to His laws, has annexed a present as well as a future reward to a good life; and has so interwoven our duty and our happiness together that, while we are discharging our obligations to the one, we are at the same time making the best provision for the other.” WellsTogetherLawOrderWonderfulMankindDutyRewardsObligationObedienceGod LoveGood LifeProvisionWonderful Love Author:William Melmoth