"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes … known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.… No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
— Political Observations, 1795
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Friedrich Nietzsche in “Beyond Good and Evil”:
“He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.”********************
John Jay Gould: a robber baron connected with many of the largest railway financial operations in the United States from 1868-1888. During the Great Southwest Railroad Strike of 1886 he hired strikebreakers; according to labor unionists, he said at the time, "I can hire one-half of the working class to kill the other half."
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William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming:”
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
And:
Remind you at all of today's political situation and the Republican race?And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
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John Kenneth Galbraith (Canadian-born administrator & economist,
1908 - 2006):
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.********************
Anatole France (1844 - 1924):
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.********************
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