Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Dynastic Predisposition?


Are we genetically hardwired to favor dynasties?
The mind should say no, but, when it cast a vote, the hand says yes.
"The die is cast."?...
Our last election resurrected old dynasties. Not just dynasties, but dynasties we should know better than to resuscitate. The thoughtful voters of California and New York elected Governors named Brown and Cuomo. Brown was a true resurrection from the polyester era. Cuomo is just a timeline continuum from the last 100 years. It included names like Cuomo, Kennedy, Rockefeller and Roosevelt come to mind.
We keep installing the familiar names from the past. As some names pass, Kennedy and Bush, others keep haunting, Brown, Cuomo and (shudder) Clinton.
Nothing is new. They won't just die. Caesar was assassinated, his chosen heir set a long pattern of empire on the road to decline. Charles I lost his head to the short lived Commonwealth period lead by Roundheads, but the Cavaliers returned with Charles II. England still has a Charles in waiting.
So now California and New York have their Hydras with no Hercules in sight.
Tribalism and familiar dominance appears to still be the way of most flesh, but not another Clinton, please.


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