Jeff

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” – T.S. Eliot”
― G. Michael Hopf, Inception

“Friedrich Nietzsche, “Ultimately it is the desire, not the desirer, that we love.”
― G. Michael Hopf, Cries of a Dying World

“Tocqueville charged that Americans lived under the constant threat of a tyranny of the majority - an alternative despotism - that muzzled dissent and killed freedom of opinion in America. He claimed, 'I know of no country where there is in general less independence of mind and true freedom of discussion that in America.' What Tocqueville feared most from equality was a deadening uniformity of thought, which he believed he detected in America. he depicted Americans as victims of a crippling conformity of opinion, justified only in part by the great instability of conditions inherent in a new country, yet aggravated by an extreme case of national pride that made self-criticism unlikely. He complained that one could not even criticize the weather in America.”
― Olivier Zunz, The Man Who Understood Democracy: The Life of Alexis de Tocqueville

“Pigrum quin immo et iners videtur sudore adquirere quod possis sanguine parare.

(Nay, they actually think it tame and stupid to acquire by the sweat of toil what they might win by their blood.)”
― Tacitus, The Agricola and The Germania