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“It would seem as if the rulers of our time sought only to use men in order to make things great; I wish that they would try a little more to make great men; that they would set less value on the work and more upon the workman; that they would never forget that a nation cannot long remain strong when every man belonging to it is individually weak; and that no form or combination of social polity has yet been devised to make an energetic people out of a community of pusillanimous and enfeebled citizens.”
― Democracy in America: Volume 2
― Democracy in America: Volume 2
“Government does not solve problems. It subsidizes them.”
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“And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.”
― The Phantom Tollbooth
― The Phantom Tollbooth
“Never feeling guilt is not a state of ecstasy, as Las Vegas advertisements would have us believe, but is actually a sign of numbness unto death.”
― Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World
― Slow Kingdom Coming: Practices for Doing Justice, Loving Mercy and Walking Humbly in the World
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
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