"A sick society must think much about..." - Quote by C S Lewis
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
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“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.”
“When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours.”
“They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each.”
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“Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise too apt to insult them upon the score of their age.”
“If you would rule the world quietly, you must keep it amused.”
“Knowledge is power, which is why people who had it in the past often tried to make a secret of it. In post-capitalism, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.”
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“I've learned one thing in politics. You don't take a decision until you have to.”
“To make fun of an administration, to make fun of anything, Mark Twain said, is the last defense of democracy.”
“What the American people hope - what they deserve - is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life.”