Part I Here as well as other Posts in this Blog, detail the two essential parts of Humanity that are in constant conflict. These two forces of Causal Principle are the Collective and the Individual and are as old as to be of mention in Biblical texts.
***Innate Specificities and preferences are used to rule the minds of men by natural forces - hence the Generational controls and the cyclic revolutions... pjb developing.
Grasping real Democracy - Making the Future for all Humanity
Respect.
Questioning everything and the end of Denial, Tyranny, Lies and Incompetence.
The "general welfare" is not the sphere of truth; for truth demands to be declared even if it is ugly and unethical. - Friedrich Nietzsche
"The aim of art, the aim of a life, can only be to increasethe sum of freedom and responsibilityto be found in every man and in the world.It cannot, under any circumstances,be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily."-- Albert Camus(1913-1960) French Algerian author
The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. - John Locke
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression. - Thomas Paine
"I heartily accept the motto,that government is best which governs least ... Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which I also believe,that government is best which governs not at all;and when men are prepared for it,that will be the kind of government which they will have."-- Henry David Thoreau
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt. - H. L. Mencken
Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. - Aristotle
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
George Orwell
All forms of tampering with human beings, getting at them, shaping them against their will to your own pattern, all thought control and conditioning is, therefore, a denial of that in men which makes them men and their values ultimate. - Isaiah Berlin
What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. - John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry. - William F. Buckley, Jr.
Economic ignorance is the breeding ground of totalitarianism. - John Jewkes
Everyone has the right to make his own decisions, but none has the right to force his decision on others. - Ayn Rand
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chieflyto be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."-- Aristotle(384-322 BC) Greek philosopher
"Government cannot make us equal;it can only recognize, respect, andprotect us as equal before the law."-- Clarence ThomasU. S. Supreme Court Justice
"There is one safeguard known generally to the wise,
which is an advantage and security to all,
but especially to democracies as against despots.
What is it? Distrust."
-- Demosthenes
(384 B.C.-322 B.C.)
"We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of." -Edward Bernays,
"I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all members of the military profession I never had an original thought until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of the higher- ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service." : General Smedley Butler. USMC (Ret.)
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint:" - Edmund Burke - Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint:" - Edmund Burke - Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
"GENTLENESS IS EVERYWHERE IN DAILY LIFE, A SIGN THAT FAITH RULES THROUGH ORDINARY THINGS... EVEN IN A TIME OF ELEPHANTINE VANITY AND GREED, ONE NEVER HAS TO LOOK FAR TO SEE THE CAMPFIRES OF GENTLE PEOPLE. LACKING ANY OTHER PURPOSE IN LIFE, IT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO LIVE FOR THEIR SAKE." GARRISON KEILLOR
