#men

There has been so much power concentrated. There is no leash on that power anymore and Americans face the situation that this power is getting momentum with each passing year with each presidency. ↗

— James Bovard

#been #concentrated #each #face #getting

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people. ↗

— James Bovard

#american people #between #exploiting #fear #federal

Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons? ↗

— Anthony Bourdain

#american culture #commentary #culture #sharper #simpsons

But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#human-impact #industrial-revolution #death

Men tend to be selfish. ↗

— Caprice Bourret

#selfish #tend

It is one of the great tragedies of the US, that most learn most of what they know about the government from the government. ↗

— James Bovard

#government #great #know #learn #most

If an election is simply a one-day snapshot of transient mass delusions, then this is not a very noble form of government. ↗

— James Bovard

#election #form #government #mass #noble

If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for a shepherd in chief. ↗