"All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him... One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them."
~ H. L. Mencken, "Prejudices: Third Series (Le Contrat Social)". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1922.
Poster Comment:
Devastatingly true. If only such pearls impact matched their profundity :(
#1: Ada To: NeoconsNailed (#0)
"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are the most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping, and unintelligent." -- H.L. Mencken
Ada posted on 2021-04-12 15:43:35 Reply Private Reply
#2: NeoconsNailed To: Ada (#1)
"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people's anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a wholeole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests."
~ Albert Camus (1978). "Notebooks, 1935-1942", Harcourt
We studied Camus in high school French, but of course didn't grasp his lessons very well.
NeoconsNailed posted on 2021-04-12 15:46:17 Reply Private Reply
#3: Lod To: NeoconsNailed, Ada, 4um (#2)
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