Locke om tyranni

«Whenever the power that is put in any hands for the government of the people, and the protection of our properties, is applied to other ends, and made use of to impoverish, harass or subdue them to the arbitrary and irregular commands of those that have it; there it presently becomes tyranny, whether those that thus use it are one or many»

— John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government, Ch. 18.

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Politisk korrekt undervisning

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«Today, they are teaching students what to think — political correctness. Instead of knowledge, students are given "self-esteem," so that they can vent their ignorance with confidence.»

— Thomas Sowell

Makt og mening

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«Nothing appears more surprising to those, who consider human affairs with a philosophical eve, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few; and the implicit submission, with which men resign their own sentiments and passions to those of their rulers. When we enquire by what means this wonder is effected, we shall find, that, as FORCE is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded.»

— David Hume. Of the First Principles of Government.

Skatt er umydiggjøring

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Dansk: «Skatteudplyndringen er til en hver tid proportional med den umyndiggørelse, der finder sted imod befolkningen. Umyndiggørelsen, det vil sige nidkær kontrol og overvågning, er nødvendig af den simple grund, at folk i almindelighed ikke bryder sig om at blive udplyndret. Skattetryk og umyndiggørelse vil derfor altid vokse i samme takt. Det er også logik.»

— Jens Jackie Jensen

Verden er din forestilling II

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«Man is disturbed not by things but by the views he takes of them.»

— Epiktet

Venstreintellektuelle er moralsk bankerott

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«If in the 1950s rightists were criticized as cynical Cold Warriors who never met a right-wing thug they wouldn't support, as long as he mouthed a few anti-Soviet platitudes, then in the last two decades almost any thug from Latin America to the Middle East who professed concern for “the people” - from Castro and the Noriega Brothers to Yasser Arafat and the Iranian mullahs - was likely to earn a pass from the American and European cultural elite and media.»

— Victor Davis Hanson, Cracked Icons - Why the Left has lost credibility. 17/12/2004.

Den herskende moderne ortodoksi

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«Alle som utfordrer den herskende ortodoksi, oppdager at de bringes til taushet med forbausende effektivitet. En mening som går på tvers av det som er moderne, får nesten aldri en fair behandling, verken i den populære presse eller i de intellektuelle tidsskrifter.»

— George Orwell

Narsissisme

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«Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm -- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.»

— T. S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party

Muslimenes verdslige sfære?

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«Det sier seg selv at muslimene ikke kan integreres med oss i en verdslig sfære når en slik sfære for dem ikke finnes»

— Olav Versto, politisk redaktør, Lederartikkel i VG, 14 august 2002

Skatt og tålmodighet

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«The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.»

— William H. Borah

Politikk som bestikkelse

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«[Democracy] will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money."

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Bacon om sannhet og forfengelighet

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«For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances of things … and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish their subtler differences; as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness to dispose and set in order; and as being a man that neither affects what is new nor admires what is old, and that hates everykind of imposture.»

— Francis Bacon

Flertallstyranni

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«A democratic despotism is like a theocracy: it assumes its own correctness.»

— Walter Bagehot

Korstog og psykopati

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«It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.»

— Robert Lindner

Skatt og liberalistisk klasseteori

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«Alle ønsker å leve på statens bekostning. De glemmer at staten lever på bekostning av alle.»

— Frederic Bastiat, The Law, by (1850)

Løgnen og tyranniet

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«Jeg forlanger ikke at dere skal gripe til våpen mot tyrannene. Jeg forlanger ikke at dere skal gå ut i gatene og demonstrere mot dem. Jeg ber dere bare om å slutte å delta i løgnen!»

— Alexander Solsjenitsyn

Slaveri

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«A Slave is he who cannot speak his thoughts.»

— Euripides

Politisk korrekt sosial eksorsisme - "antirasismen"

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«Bekæmpelse af racisme er efterhånden blevet arbejdsløse venstrefløjspolitikeres beskæftigelsesterapi. De bruger begrebet terroristisk til at tyrannisere politiske modstandere med. Den rendyrkede racisme findes så godt som ikke i Danmark. Men jagten efter den er blevet en hel besættelse. Hvis der dukker nogle få eksemplarer op på uforfalsket racisme, opleves det nærmest som en lettelse. Så er der igen noget at bekæmpe og beskylde andre for, samtidig med at ens eget selvværd kan vokse.»

— Kultursociolog Mehmet Ümit Necef, Weekendavisen 13/3 1992.

Løgnen er maktens privilegium

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«Politikk er kunsten å forhindre at folk engaserer seg i sakene som naturlig angår dem.»

— Paul Valery (1871-1945)

Schopenhauer om triks

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«Det ville være en god ting hvis hvert eneste triks kunne få et åpenbart passende navn, slik at når en mann brukte et bestemt triks, så kunne han straks irettesettes for det.»

— Arthur Schopenhauer i The Art of Controversy.

Praktisk klokskap

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«We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.»

— Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom.

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