"What right those who govern have to..." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
What right those who govern have to govern they don't question, they just govern. Whether the people have a right to depose them that doesn't concern them. All they are concerned with is that the people will not be tempted to depose them.
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“There is a great difference, whether the poet seeks the particular for the sake of the general or sees the general in the particular. From the former procedure there ensues allegory, in which the particular serves only as illustration, as example of the general. The latter procedure, however, is genuinely the nature of poetry; it expresses something particular, without thinking of the general or pointing to it.”
“The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.”
“One doesn't always lose when one has to do without.”
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“They'll get it all from you sooner or later 'cause they own this f**kin' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white collar, blue collar, it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on.”
“Law, without force, is impotent.”
“Worthless persons appointed to have supreme control of weighty affairs do a lot of damage.”
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“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
“A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.”
“When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.”