Potent Quotables (updated periodically)

  • "If you like sausages and laws, you should never watch either one of them being made." -- Otto von Bismarck
  • "God who gave us life, gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice cannot sleep forever." -- Thomas Jefferson
  • "The best way to prove a stick is crooked is to lay a straight one beside it" -- FW Boreham
  • "There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who walk into a room and say, 'There you are' and those who say, 'Here I am'" -- Abigail Van Buren
  • "It was not political rhetoric, mass rallies or poses of moral indignation that gave the people a better life. It was capitalism." -- Thomas Sowell

Thursday, May 14, 2009

Nothing to do with it

Logic has nothing to do with it.
Economics has nothing to do with it.
Political ideology has nothing to do with it.
The Constitution has nothing to do with it.
Tradition has nothing to do with it.
Moral grounding has nothing whatsoever to do with it.

It's power, and a willingness to do literally whatever it takes to get and keep it, and consequences to others be damned. "Whatever it takes" includes making promises you never intend to keep, changing stances on issues at a whim, distracting attention from the real story, ridding yourself of inconvenient allies (or appearing to do so), and using threats to silence enemies.

A fearsome enemy. A dangerous philosophy.
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