Laws Are Like Cobwebs – Quote by Jonathan Swift
“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”
Jonathan Swift
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Every Day is an Opportunity – Jonathan Swift
“Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending. May you live all the days of your life.”
Jonathan Swift
Quote by Jonathan Swift about mistakes and wisdom
“You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday”
Jonathan Swift
Cynical View on Democracy and Presidency by H. L. Mencken
“All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”
H. L. Mencken
Sometimes You Can Hear the Clanking of Chains – Unknown
“Sometimes, you can actually hear the clanking of the chains when someone speaks.”
Unbekannt
Max Horkheimer Quote on Science, Faith, and Power
“Already in the 18th century, not to mention the present, the course of science as well as of faith was motivated less by the will to do good than by the interest of power.”
Max Horkheimer
Capitalism Quote by Roland Baader
“To call the miserable remnants of the free market and free society, which the statism of the modern welfare dictatorship and the creeping socialism of the welfare state have left behind as a kind of market-economic carcass, “capitalism” and to attribute everything that killed it as its own excesses can only appear as an intellectual capacity in a country whose intellectual soil is poisoned by centuries of practiced state mysticism.”
Roland Baader
No man is free – Epictetus
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
Epiktet
Epictetus Quote on the Power of Perspective
“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
Epiktet
The key is to keep company only with people – Epictetus
“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
Epiktet