It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions. – Johann von Goethe, German statesman The Global Competitiveness Report 2002-3 defines governance as the exercise of authority through formal and informal traditions and institutions for the common good. Note the emphasis and focus on ‘common good.’ The NDB permeates
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.– Aesop, Greek fabulist The fabulist has boldly unveiled the soul and DNA of the embarrassing truth that is oft manipulated or manufactured by mad politicians feigning superiority and rare intellect. Every known societal malady, parody or tragedy
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.— Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher The obvious punishment dispensed by government is symbolised by the mythological king Sisyphus who was condemned to a lifelong punishment of pushing a boulder uphill. He never succeeded because the boulder kept tumbling back downhill. Do
When the government smiles, the rattlesnakes run for cover.— Sitting Bull, Lakota Sioux Native American chief The baring of fangs is usually an expected event when the recipient of the naked truth, bereft of embellishments and improvisations, is unable to agree or accede to the demands for reform and resolution.
All of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking. – Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist Everyday thinking, or ‘stinking thinking,’ neatly separates and distinguishes neo-science, non-science and nonsense, and catalogues them for mental blockades, silly arguments, useless debates and inevitable migraines. Even nonsense has a spot. You can
I think dystopian futures are also a reflection of current fears. – Lauren Oliver, American author The right is condemning the left, and vice-versa in North America; the anarchists are condemning the separatists, supremacists and extremists; the revolutionaries are condemning the do-nothings; the politicians are blaming each other while fattening
Discovery consists not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust, French novelist The 15th century code for empire-building was ‘land ahoy,’ shouted by the ship’s watch to inform the weary seafaring crew that land has been spotted. Whether or not the ship’s captain and
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.– Ida B. Wells, founder of the NAACP Civil wrongs invariably happen when civil rights are distorted and decimated in litigated cases. Civil rights are property rights within the scope and substance of Article 13 Federal Constitution
For what avail the plough or the sail, or land or life, if freedom fail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist THE greatest fear facing mankind is for some superior sovereign to define, decide and deliver freedom either through public policy manifest in written laws and constitutions, or by sheer
Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by. – A.E. Samaan, investigative historian A salami attack, first coined in the 1940s by Hungarian politicians, imposes small, incremental changes to a system to steal small amounts of money or resources. The changes are often so small
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