“The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal.” IfsDealsWatchesShareHavensPleaseAuthorityVoteCongressTrackDebateVideoPartnershipRepresentativesSenatorsOrganizeColleaguesTransPacificWhisk Author:Robert Reich
“Above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to watch over their fate. That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and mild. It would be like the authority of a parent, if, like that authority, its object was to prepare them for manhood; but it seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood.” IfsMenWould BeParentRaceWatchesPowerFateChildhoodMinutesObjectsAuthorityAbsolutesContraryOppressionSecurePerpetualImmenseManhoodGratification Book:Democracy in America Source: Democracy in America
“There is perhaps no single factor contributing so much to people's frequent reluctance to let the market work as their inability to conceive how some necessary balance, between demand and supply, between exports and imports, or the like, will be brought about without deliberate control. The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsWatchesBalanceHigherSafeDemandAuthorityConservativeFactorsInabilityAssuredDeliberateContributingOrderlyImportsReluctance Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.” ReligionWatchesPleaseAuthorityFingersConvictionBackwards Book:Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims Source: Franklin's Way to Wealth and Penn's Maxims
“The conservative feels safe and content only if he is assured that some higher wisdom watches and supervises change, only if he knows that some authority is charged with keeping the change "orderly.” IfsKnowsFeelsWatchesHigherSafeAuthorityConservativeAssuredOrderly Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“After forty years, with whatever authority comes from lived experience, I can say: You, too, can create something. You can nurture it and watch it grow.” YearsI CanGrowsWatchesAuthorityFortyNurture Author:Sy Safransky