Taken Their Place

"I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."

– Winston Churchill to the Peel Commission (1937) on a Jewish homeland in Palestine

The Charity of the Poor

When the rich give charity to the poor, it's well publicized. But the charity of the poor to the rich is anonymous. The rich give the poor a little food, drink, shelter, clothes. The poor have given the rich palaces and yachts, almost infinite freedom to indulge their doubtful taste for display.

– Gilbert Seldes "Against Revolution"

Lord Keynes of the Market

Man was not made for the market, but rather, the market was made for man.

Progressive, Liberal, Reformer

“If I tell you that there are powerful people who are oppressing you to defend their own interests, you’ll call me a progressive, a liberal, and a reformer. If I tell you who those people are, you’ll call me a Nazi.”

– Gregory Hood

Starved People Cannot Be Taught

(To be edited and expanded on)

Keys on the Minnesota Starvation Study (a study worth studying):

"Starved people cannot be taught democracy."

Starved people cannot be taught anything. To me this applies to the obese who are actually nutrient and energy starved as well (it's a true paradox but an explainable one). It applies to the "skinny fat" as well, who have no noticeable muscle mass and what is man without strength? In short, it applies to the American people. We are starved for muscle mass and healthy fats. We are being starved intentionally in this area and in the educational one to keep us there. It is no coincidence that Plato, that shining star of the West, was a wrestler and was also presented in ideal physical form. Bodily fitness and intelligence are connected with thinking. We have lost our well deserved Greek inheritance.

"To talk about the will of the people when you aren't feeding them is perfect hogwash."

Reverently Orientated

"But by far the most important channel of transmission of culture remains the family: and when family life fails to play its part, we must expect our culture to deteriorate. Now the family is an institution of which nearly everybody speaks well: but it is advisable to remember that this is a term that may vary in extension. In the present age it means little more than the living members. Even of living members, it is a rare exception when an advertisement depicts a large family or three generations: the usual family on the hoardings consists of two parents and one or two young children. What is held up for admiration is not devotion to a family, but personal affection between the members of it: and the smaller the family, the more easily can this personal affection be sentimentalised. But when I speak of family, I have in mind a bond which embraces a longer period of time than this: a piety towards the dead, however obscure, and a solicitude for the unborn, however remote. Unless this reverence for past and future is cultivated in the home, it can never be more than a verbal convention in the community. Such an interest in the past is different from the vanities and pretensions of genealogy; such a responsibility for the future is different from that of the builder of social programmes."

–T.S. Eliot "Notes towards the Definition of Culture"

Hypothetical Hysteria

"The goal of a liberal / classical education is to produce a person with a fully general capacity to entertain hypotheses without being a hysterical bitch."

– D. Antinora (mashing up some other quotes I found on Twitter)