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«We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.»
«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
| Keywords:
abhorrent, at large, demented, dishonest, eaten, eaten up, fit to, incapable, inducement, inducements, inveterately, lazy, lunatic, morally, pursued, rationally, recognized, remorselessly, seclusion, self government, sorrowfully, tempt, theft, thefts
«India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.»
Author: Will Durant
(Historian, Writer)
| Keywords:
Arabs, Buddha, communities, embodied, embodies, embodying, Europe, India, languages, Sanskrit, self government, the Buddha, village
«When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self government - that is despotism»
«I am a firm believer in democratic representative government as the best form for those who have the tolerance and self-restraint that is required to make it workable»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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democratic government, representative, representative government, restraint, self-restraint, self government, workable
«Good government is no substitute for self-government»
Author: Mahatma Gandhi
(Philosopher)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
No self, self government, substitute, substituted, substituting
«Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a ''taxing-machine';' to the contented, a ''machine for securing property'.' Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
active, appetite, balancing, constable, constables, contented, discontented, duties, emphatically, guided, keen, machine, No Quarter, parish, Parties, party man, quarter, securing, self government, self interest, taxing
«The danger is that the cruel arts of their oppressors have enchained their minds, have kept them in the ignorance of children, and as incapable of self-government as children. If the obstacles of bigotry, the shackles of the priest-craft can be surmo»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| Keywords:
craft, enchain, enchained, enchains, oppressors, self government
«In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
agencies, bigotry, brutish, cultist, government agencies, incarnate, incarnated, outsider, outsiders, psychiatrists, recapitulate, self-righteous, self government, The Story, unsightly, word for word
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