He’s always complaining about the fucking recession and how the government is working against people like him. He calls himself working class, which I think is a bit ironic since he doesn’t work.
Ida LøkåsTags: work government complaining recession ironic working-class
...men unite against none so readily as against those whom they
see attempting to rule over them.
Tags: war government monarchy
Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government.
Kim Stanley RobinsonTags: money power law government
There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.
E.A. BucchianeriTags: wisdom truth family philosophy humility philosophical simplicity government academia governments dinner wise-words university philosophy-of-life kitchen academic table parliament universities simple-truths true-wisdom unpretentious dinner-table family-time kitchen-philosophy kitchen-table spending-time-with-family wise-people
Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats.
(1994) p. 99
Tags: politics corruption bureaucracy government plato policy conservative process politics-of-the-united-states bureaucrats
Uniformity in the common law, consisting of broad principles like the "reasonable person" standard, generally permits adjustment for the circumstances. This type of uniform principle is almost synonymous with fairness. Uniform application of a detailed rule, on the other hand, will almost always favor one group over another. p. 34
Philip K. HowardTags: politics law bureaucracy government fairness common-law red-tape
This revolutionary idea of Western citizenship—replete with ever more rights and responsibilities—would provide superb manpower for growing legions and a legal framework that would guarantee that the men who fought felt that they themselves in a formal and contractual sense had ratified the conditions of their own battle service. The ancient Western world would soon come to define itself by culture rather than by race, skin color, or language. That idea alone would eventually bring enormous advantages to its armies on the battlefield. (p. 122)
Victor Davis HansonTags: politics war civilization warfare government consent rome citizenship soldiers western-culture contract-for-service voluteer-army
Human nature turns out to be more complicated than the idea that people will get along if only the rules are clear enough. Uncertainty, the ultimate evil that modern law seeks to eradicate, generally fosters cooperation, not the opposite.
Philip K. HowardTags: law bureaucracy uncertainty government rules
The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength. One need only study the history of the past three hundred years to understand by what relentless struggles every right has had to be wrested inch by inch from the despots.
Rudolf RockerTags: freedom struggle government rights despotism privileges
An honest government is the childish dream of the gullible men!
Mehmet Murat ildanTags: government
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