POLITICAL PORK THROUGH THE MEAT GRINDER! "A government of laws, and not of men."-John Adams "The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people."-Noam Chomsky "Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."-Vera Brittain "Politics is more difficult than physics."-Albert Einstein "What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"-Gilbert Highet "Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river."-Nikita Khruschev "Politics I conceive to be nothing more that the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself." "Man is by nature a political animal."-Aristotle "In the evolution of political ideas, anarchism can be seen as an ultimate projection of both liberalism and socialism, and the differing strands of anarchist thought can be related to their emphasis on one or the other of these aims. Historically, anarchism was a radical answer to the question "What went wrong?" that followed the outcome of the French Revolution. Conservatives like Edmund Burke, liberals like Alexis de Tocqueville, had their own responses. Anarchist thinkers were unique on the political left in affirming that workers and peasants, grasping the chance to overturn the result of centuries of exploitation and tyranny, were betrayed by the seizure of centralised state power by a new class of politicians who had no hesitation in applying violence and terror, a secret police and a professional army to maintain themselves in power. The institution of the state was itself the enemy. They applied the same criticism to every revolution of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. "-Collin Ward "The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself... Almost inevitably, he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable." -- H.L. Mencken "We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it. The whole conception of God is a conception derived from the ancient Oriental despotisms. It is a conception quite unworthy of free men. When you hear people in church debasing themselves and saying that they are miserable sinners, and all the rest of it, it seems contemptible and not worthy of self-respecting human beings. We ought to stand up and look the world frankly in the face. We ought to make the best we can of the world, and if it is not so good as we wish, after all it will still be better than what these others have made of it in all these ages. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. It needs a fearless outlook and a free intelligence. It needs hope for the future, not looking back all the time toward a past that is dead, which we trust will be far surpassed by the future that our intelligence can create." How can you think freely in the shadow of a steeple? or Who needs a mind when you have a Bible? excerpts from Mikhail Bakunin's God and the State "...most people think that nothing but this wearying reality of ours is possible." -- Nietzsche |
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