Reply #4: More from J. S. Mill... [View All]

[warren pease]

"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."

The more things change...


"What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called."

Or, as Orwell put it in far grimmer terms, "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever."


"The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution."

We'll see by next January if this pattern will repeat, or if we'll somehow manage to rid ourselves of the horrible, self-inflicted curse of the Bush/Cheney regime.


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