The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life.. They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential. B.F. Skinner
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
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Douglas Adams
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
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Paul Krugman
Immer wieder behauptete Unwahrheiten werden nicht zu Wahrheiten, sondern, was schlimmer ist, zu Gewohnheiten.
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Oliver Hassencamp
What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
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John Brunner
A people religiously right, will not long remain politically wrong.
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William Arnot
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To spoil means to put no limit on caprice, to give one the impression that everything is permitted to him and that he has no obligations. The young child exposed to this regime has no experience of its own limits. By reason of the removal...
