Weekend Economists: "So much to do, so little done, such things to be." April 20-22, 2012

[Demeter]

29. TODAY'S QUOTE

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"When people ask me, 'Why can't labor organize the way it did in the thirties?'
the answer is simple: everything we did then is now illegal." - Thomas Geoghegan

MORE QUOTES:


"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." - Plato

"Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they
are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume
that its might makes it right." - Joseph Sobran, Columnist

"By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever
cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in
other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction" - William Osler (Canadian
Physician, 1849-1919)

"Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters
down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and
the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where
lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children's pastime like
mere highway robbery." - Stephen Crane

A FINAL WARNING

"Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked;
contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free.
No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything-you can't conquer a free man;
the most you can do is kill him." - Robert A. Heinlein, If This Goes On, 1940