“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?”
Claude Frédéric Bastiat
“The fight against the far right has increasingly turned into a fight against one’s own people.”
Uwe Heinz Steimle
“With all due respect, you can’t heat houses in winter with nuclear energy. And as if that blatant nonsense weren’t enough, she added: They shouldn’t assume we’re any more foolish than the average person.”
Claudia Roth
“Even once we have a vaccine and know more about possible immunity, one thing remains clear for us: there must not be a two-tier society of infected and non-infected people. There can be no mandatory vaccination — and there will be none.”
Bärbel Bas
“A life that is unwilling to take risks inevitably begins to resemble death.”
Robert Pfaller
“One might still justify the submission of an entire people to a small number of rulers if those in power were the best among us—but that is not the case, never has been, and never can be. All too often it is the worst, the most insignificant, the most cruel, the most immoral—and especially the most deceitful—who rule. And the fact that this is so is no accident.”
Leo Tolstoi (Leo Tolstoy)
“It is hardly necessary to point out that the inability of the masses to judge correctly deprives them of any capacity for critical thought—that is, the ability to distinguish truth from error and to form a sound judgment. The judgments adopted by the masses are merely imposed on them and are never the result of careful examination. Many individuals, in this respect, do not rise above the level of the crowd. The ease with which certain opinions become widely accepted is due above all to the inability of most people to form an opinion of their own on the basis of personal reasoning.”
Gustave Le Bon
“It is the opposition’s job to strip the government of its makeup while the show is still going on.”
Jacques Chirac
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root”
Henry David Thoreau