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«The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts --the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria --are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.»
Author: Edward Dahlberg
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
automatic, cafeteria, cafeterias, comforts, depriving, elevator, Elevators, escalator, escalators, merchant, populace, self-service, self interest, specious, volition
«Elections are held to delude the populace into believing that they are participating in government.»
«A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.»
«Or it needs only to look back over past centuries and the iniquities alike of populace, nobles, kings, and popes to perceive an almost incomprehensible futility of the beliefs everywhere held and perpetually insisted upon»
Author: Herbert Spencer
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
incomprehensible, iniquities, insisted, nobles, perpetually, popes, populace
«ART, n. This word has no definition. Its origin is related as follows by the ingenious Father Gassalasca Jape, S.J.One day a wag --what would the wretch be at? -- Shifted a letter of the cipher RAT, And said it was a god's name! Straight arose Fantastic priests and postulants (with shows, And mysteries, and mummeries, and hymns, And disputations dire that lamed their limbs) To serve his temple and maintain the fires, Expound the law, manipulate the wires. Amazed, the populace that rites attend, Believe whate'er they cannot comprehend, And, inly edified to learn that two Half-hairs joined so and so (as Art can do) Have sweeter values and a grace more fit Than Nature's hairs that never have been split, Bring cates and wines for sacrificial feasts, And sell their garments to support the priests.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
amazed, as follows, cipher, day shift, disputation, disputations, edified, expound, fires, hairs, hymn, hymns, jape, joined, lamed, Letter of, limbs, mummery, populace, rites, sacrificial, shifted, so-and-so, split, sweeter, wag, wines, wires
«ANOINT, v.t. To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.As sovereigns are anointed by the priesthood, So pigs to lead the populace are greased good. --Judibras»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
anoint, functionaries, functionary, greased, populace, priesthood, slippery, sovereigns
«A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.»
«The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
dreaded, indiscriminate, populace, prostrate, prostrates, prostrating, tumultuous
«The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Politics
| Keywords:
aim, alarmed, alarming, alarms, clamorous, endless, hence, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, imaginary, imaginary being, LED, menaced, menaces, menacing, politics, populace, practical, practical politics, safeties, safety, series, The Alarm, The Hobgoblin, The Menace
«Our society distributes itself into Barbarians, Philistines, and Populace.»
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