There has always been, and there is now, a profound conflict of interest between the people and the government of the United States.

Howard Zinn

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The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich men's crimes escape the law, protected as they are by the cowardice of governments and people, Nature, more real than society, sets her anarchic example by abandoning the wretched time servers of Capital to the shame and madness of the worst aberrations.

Jean Lorrain

Tags: rich wealth society nature decadence law cowardice government boredom wealthy



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We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.

Anthony Burgess

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In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights.

Aleister Crowley

Tags: equality cooperation democracy psychology government discipline mob coexistence mob-psychology



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Damned Beaver/Jeremy is the War, he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made--that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority over love, dreams, the spirit, the senses and the other second-class trivia that are found among the idle and mindless hours of the day....Damn them, they are wrong. They are insane.

Thomas Pynchon

Tags: war status-quo government rebellion expectations



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The basic problem of the Christians in this country in the last eighty years or so, in regard to society and in regard to government, is that they have seen things in bits and pieces instead of totals.

Francis A. Schaeffer

Tags: politics christianity government apologetics francis-schaeffer reformed legal-theory



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My father always said that government is like watching another man piss in your boot. Someone feels better but it certainly isn't you.

Orson Scott Card

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And in heaven's name, who are the public enemies?" exclaimed Dr. Leete. "Are they France, England Germany or hunger, cold and nakedness?

Edward Bellamy

Tags: war government political utopia



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The health care bill is nothing about health care- it's about controlling the people.

David Lincoln

Tags: government control political radio health-care reform fox-news tea-party



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If Congress refuse to listen to and grant what women ask, there is but one course left then to pursue. What is there left for women to do but to become the mothers of the future government?

Victoria Claflin Woodhull

Tags: society corruption government womens-rights suffrage victoria-woodhull



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