While we are under the tyranny of Priests, it will ever be their interest, to invalidate the law of nature and reason, in order to establish systems incompatible therewith.
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They (who) seek to establish systems of government based on the regimentation of all human beings by a handful of individual rulers. . . call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.
quote by Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.
quote by Ethan Allen

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.
quote by George Orwell

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
George Orwell in 1984

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One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.
quote by George Orwell

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The rehabilitation of order as a universal principle, however, suggested at the same time that orderliness by itself is not sufficient to account for the nature of organized systems in general or for those created by man in particular.
quote by Rudolf Arnheim

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We are losing our living systems, social systems, cultural systems, governing systems, stability, and our constitutional health, and we're surrendering it all at the same time.
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The interest which lay behind Federalism was that of well-to-do citizens in a stable political and social order, and this interest aroused them to favor and to seek some form of political organization which was capable of protecting their property and promoting its interest.
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Something Unrevealed
If there was an interest,
You would express fresh questions.
You'd wish to know something new.
Something unrevealed between me and you.
If there was an interest,
We'd both be on our best behavior.
Trying to impress.
And displaying a happiness.
But what we have here is a competition.
A game of some kind...
To seek ways to undermine.
And my sole purpose with you,
Is to establish a meaningful relationship!
One for the long haul.
And not one pursued to unhitch and undo.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.
George Orwell in 1984

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Conflict Of Interest
How can you make such preposterous declarations.
That I have a conflict of interest?
When each and every interest I have,
There is not one conflict...
Have I ever expressed about them.
None!
And I would like to know this...
Who believes better than I do,
What my interests are?
'I 'think' you are misunderstanding,
Your position as treasurer of the committee.
You see...
You can not champion the act of integrity,
And then take the money you are trusted with...
To establish your own loan company.
THAT can also be construed as either theft or fraud.'
Well,
Make up your mind!
Are you accusing me of being a thief...
Without integrity?
Or one who maneuvers fraudulently with interest?
And may I add this to your unfounded claims,
Where am I suppose to have this conflict?
I am perfectly aware of my activities.
And I vehemently protest your absurdities.
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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When Those Aspects Aren't There To Nourish
Why would anyone,
Take it upon themselves to assume...
That someone else,
Who has been accustomed to being on their own...
Without them having a significant presence,
At anytime remembered and has been alone...
Suddenly awaken with a desire to fulfill an urge,
For something unknown but is craved to fill a void?
Some people wanting to establish long lasting relationships,
Should not wait until the need has exhausted...
The interest, reason, purpose or desire.
When those aspects aren't there to nourish...
What is the point?
poem by Lawrence S. Pertillar

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Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
quote by Thomas Huxley

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You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.
quote by Walter Bagehot

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Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth, the tyranny of plutocracy.
quote by Theodore Roosevelt

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Conch discus mace lotus
Conch discus mace lotus
All are yours
And you are ever ready
To establish world order
And you are ever ready
To destroy demon
And establish good.
Conch discus mace lotus
All are symbol of
Sustainability and you
Sustains.
poem by Gajanan Mishra

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Those are serious questions of war and peace, of freedom or tyranny, whether or not there is ever going to be a hope of us instilling some democratic systems in a part of the world that frankly is breeding hate and destruction directed right at us.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
quote by William Ellery Channing

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Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aidthem to judge for themselves.
quote by William Ellery Channing

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Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.
quote by Erich Fromm

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