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A new type of superstition has got hold of people's minds, the worship of the state. People demand the exercise of the methods of coercion and compulsion, of violence and threat. Woe to anybody who does not bend his knee to the fashionable idols!


Ludwig von Mises


#politics #religion #society #superstition #violence

nowhere in this universe does evil exist except in the mind of mankind. only man can take an idea or symbol which is so simple and innocent, and then twist it and corrupt it until it is something to hate or kill one another over.


Andrew James Pritchard


#hate #mankind #politics #religion #war

Jesus is not a white, middle-class Republican. Jesus is not a Democrat, a Libertarian, a Marxist, or a Socialist. Jesus is not a Baptist, a Catholic, a Lutheran, or a Buddhist. Jesus isn’t even a Christian. Jesus Christ is Lord.


Ronnie McBrayer


#politics #religion

He, too, was in the grip of rage and rhetoric. I saw that, attractive though his side of the political spectrum was. A cancerous violence had eaten into every political idea, had taken over the ideas themselves, and for so many, all that mattered was the willingness to do something. Action led to action, free of any moorings, and the way to be someone, the way to catch the attention of the young and recruit them to one's cause, was to be enraged. It seemed as if the only way this lure of violence could be avoided was by having no causes, by being magnificiently isolated from loyalties. But was that not an ethical lapse graver than rage itself?


Teju Cole


#philosphy #politics #religion #religion

وفيما يخص الالتباس المتعلق بالموقف من الحداثة, فإن الأصل فيه يأتي من أن أحدا لم يلتفت- بما يكفي- إلي استقصاء السياق الفكري والمعرفي الذي تبلور فيه خطاب جماعة الإخوان المسلمين, وتيار الإسلام السياسي علي العموم, وذلك علي الرغم من غزارة الالتفات إلي السياق السياسي والتاريخي الذي أدي إلي ظهور كل منهما; والذي يتمثل في إعلان سقوط الخلافة في العام1924, بالذات. ولعل المدخل إلي الوعي بهذا السياق المهمل, ينطلق من الإقرار بأن تيار الإسلام السياسي- وضمنه جماعة الإخوان- هو جزء من صميم ما يعرف بظاهرة الحداثة العربية; وإلي حد إمكان القطع بأنه لو أمكن تصور غياب ظاهرة الحداثة علي العموم- والنمط العربي منها علي الخصوص- لما كان لتيار الإسلام السياسي أن يتبلور من الأساس. ويعني ذلك أنه يستحيل استيعاب ظاهرة الإسلام السياسي خارج القوانين والمحددات التي حكمت انبثاق وتطور ظاهرة التحديث في العالم العربي منذ العقود الأولي في القرن التاسع عشر. وبالطبع فإنه لا يؤثر في ذلك ما يجري الإيهام به من أن الإسلام السياسي يبغي استبدال الإسلام- كمنظومة حياة- بالحداثة, من أجل استرداد ماضيه الذهبي السابق عليها; حيث الأمر لا يتجاوز مجرد استخدام الإسلام والحداثة معا من أجل بناء وتثبيت أيديولوجيا سياسية, لا تختلف عن غيرها من أيديولوجيات مناوئة إلا من حيث نوع القناع التي تتخفي خلفه


علي مبروك


#religion #religion

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone It's with O' Leary in the grave (September 1913)


W.B. Yeats


#irish-politics #yeats #romantic

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.


Thomas Jefferson


#debt #deficit-spending #government #loans #political-science

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.


Edgar D. Mitchell


#moon #politics #science #space #science

It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.


Richard Buckminster Fuller


#science

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.


Thomas Jefferson


#politics #independence






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