“Government has no right to control individual liberty beyond what is necessary to the safety and well-being of society. Such is the boundary which separates the power of the government and the liberty of the citizen or subject in the political state.” WellsStatesGovernmentPoliticalIndividualLibertySubjectsCitizensSafetyBoundariesWell BeingIndividual Liberty Author:John C. Calhoun
“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life” PeopleThinkingI CanImportantStatesHelpingSpeakOpinionSupportSubjectsPositionArgumentImportant ThingsExtremesIdeologyHelp MeIronSaneThings In LifeEntitledQualifiedPrescriptionsDrifting Author:Charlie Munger
“It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and from the rear so to speak since if death be anything at all beyond a brief and peculiar emotional state of the bereaved it must be a brief and likewise peculiar state of the subject as well and if aught can be more painful to any intelligence above that of a child or an idiot than a slow and gradual confronting with that which over a long period of bewilderment and dread it has been taught to regard as an irrevocable and unplumbable finality, I do not know it.” IfsKnowsWellsChildrenLongHas BeensStatesSpeakSubjectsEmotionalTaughtPeriodsRegardSurprisePainfulViolentIdiotPeculiarDreadConfrontingFinalityIrrevocableBewildermentPainless Author:William Faulkner
“Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.” IdeasStatesCitiesWiseSubjectsTownsPossessionItalianAccustomedQuarrelsDistractedFactionsForefathersFortressesPisa Author:Niccolo Machiavelli
“There's a War Crimes Act in the United States passed by a Republican Congress in 1996, which says that grave breaches of the Geneva Convention are subject to the death penalty. And that doesn't mean the soldier that committed them - that means the commanders.” MeanWarStatesUnitedUnited StatesSubjectsCrimeRepublicanSoldierCongressCommittedGravesConventionsPenaltiesDeath PenaltyCommandersBreachWar CrimesGenevaGeneva Convention Author:Noam Chomsky
“The only option to avoid war is the departure of the number one warmonger in the world US President George W Bush. His policy has brought disaster to the United States. This crazy man should go and also his subject, disciple and follower UK Prime Minister Tony Blair.” MenWorldShouldWarStatesPresidentUnitedNumbersUnited StatesCrazySubjectsPolicyDisasterMinistersPrimeFollowersDisciplePrime MinisterDepartureBlairUs PresidentPresident George W BushWarmongersCrazy Man Author:Naji Sabri