Unpack My Heart With Words
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"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
-Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans
"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
-Cicero
"The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better that a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepherd."
-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
"A society in which the citizens were compelled to obey even the best behaviors might be a tranquil, peaceable, and prosperous one. But it would always seem to me a multitude of well-cared-for slaves, rather than a nation of free and independent men."
-Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action
For description of personality, see Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Or look here if you're actually that interested. (Or here if you want a view that's more flattering.)
-Friedrich von Schiller, The Maid of Orleans
"What is morally wrong can never be advantageous, even when it enables you to make some gain that you believe to be to your advantage. The mere act of believing that some wrongful course of action constitutes an advantage is pernicious."
-Cicero
"The will of man is not shattered but softened, bent and guided; men are seldom forced by it to act, but they are constantly restrained from acting. Such a power does not destroy, but it prevents existence; it does not tyrannize, but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to be nothing better that a flock of timid and industrial animals, of which government is the shepherd."
-Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
"A society in which the citizens were compelled to obey even the best behaviors might be a tranquil, peaceable, and prosperous one. But it would always seem to me a multitude of well-cared-for slaves, rather than a nation of free and independent men."
-Wilhelm von Humboldt, The Limits of State Action
For description of personality, see Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Or look here if you're actually that interested. (Or here if you want a view that's more flattering.)
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