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Machines turn against men at a much lower level of power than would be ruled out by the first five criteria. But while these criteria identify necessary safeguards for life and liberty, the balance of purpose depends on a different kind of value. Conceptual rather than empirical criteria can be set for the constitutional limitation of power. It oug
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Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage. It is excellent, we must all allow. Yet this government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
Henry David Thoreau • Walden (AmazonClassics Edition)
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness"
Man's most valuable faculty is his imagination. -Unknown
Joe Tichio • Greatest Inspirational Quotes: 365 days to more Happiness, Success, and Motivation
JamesClear.com • "Solitude and Leadership"
In his opening pages, he notes that “Man is constantly being assured today that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness.”
Richard M. Weaver • Ideas Have Consequences: Expanded Edition
Education, if it had ever really been in question, would doubtless have been a noble gift; education in the sense of the central tradition of history, with its freedom, its family honour, its chivalry which is the flower of Christendom.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
“A genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind.” —Napoleon