Introzofia

Albert Schweitzer napisał kiedyś, że:

Modlitwy nie zmieniają świata, ale odmieniają ludzi, a ludzie zmieniają świat.

Chyba nie do końca jest to zgodne z chrześcijaństwem, chociaż było to napisane na obrazku ofiarowanym mi przez jednego biskupa. Właściwsze wydaje się:

Modlitwy nie tylko zmieniają świat, ale przede wszystkim odmieniają ludzi, aby oni zmieniali świat.

Jeśli demokracja jest papierkiem lakmusowym demokracji, to demokracja jest kwaśna… czyli czerwona…

Na stronie wspominanej w poprzednim wpisie znalazłem kilka cytatów. Nie chcąc przekłamywać – przytaczam tak, jak było to podane tam:

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

James Madison

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.

Karl Marx

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Thomas Paine

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Thomas Paine

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Jonathan Swift

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Gore Vidal

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.

George Washington

You don’t pay taxes – they take taxes.

Chris Rock

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

H. L. Mencken

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

Milton Friedman

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Winston Churchill

The worst thing in this world, next to anarchy, is government.

Henry Ward Beecher