“I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.” MenKindPersonsStatesUseAbleGivenFeltAnimalMagicPerfectionJustifyCapabilityInterventionGiven Up Author:Wolfgang Hildesheimer
“[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State intervene immediately and undertake a solution directly with its immense and unassailable resources. This is the gravest danger that to-day threatens civilisation: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State.” MenBelieveCountryStatesFeelingsProblemSocialEffortDangerDemandConflictMassSolutionsResourcesDifficultyImmenseSpontaneousInterventionCivilisationPublic LifeAbsorption Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
“State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.” MayStatesFormPoliticalInterestEconomicInvolvedEconomicsDirectManagementProductionsAriseSocialismFascismInitiativeLackingAssistanceInterventionInsufficient Author:Benito Mussolini
“Yet we slink about like whipped curs:;... our self-abasement principally takes the form of subservience to the United States:;... we are under no necessity to participate in the American nightmare of a Soviet monster barely held at bay in all quarters of the globe by an inconceivable nuclear armament and by political intervention everywhere from Poland to Cambodia. It is the Americans who need us in order to act out their crazy scenario... We simply do not need to go chasing up and down after the vagaries of the next ignoramus to become President of the United States.” NeedsSelfStatesFormPoliticalOrderNextPresidentUnitedUnited StatesCrazyNuclearMonstersNightmareQuartersSovietGlobesChasingInterventionUp And DownScenariosPolandArmamentCambodiaSubservienceAbasement Author:Enoch Powell
“I believe that during the intervention of NATO in Kosovo there is an element nobody can question: the air attacks, the bombs, are not caused by a material interest. Their character is exclusively humanitarian: What is at stake here are the principles, human rights which have priority above state sovereignty. This makes it legitimate to attack the Yugoslav Federation, although without the United Nations mandate.” BelieveHumansStatesCharacterI BelieveNationsInterestUnitedPrinciplesRightsAirMaterialsElementsHuman RightsHumanitarianPrioritiesBombsStakesSovereigntyUnited NationsInterventionMandatesNatoFederationKosovo Author:Vaclav Havel