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the Commonwealth
«I thought the best thing to do was to settle up these little local difficulties, and then turn to the wider vision of the Commonwealth.»
«Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike, only we commend that, whereby we ourselves receive some benefit.»
Author: John Selden
(Antiquarian, Jurist, Politician)
| Keywords:
commend, governs, hunts, the Commonwealth
«COMMONWEALTH, n. An administrative entity operated by an incalculable multitude of political parasites, logically active but fortuitously efficient.This commonwealth's capitol's corridors view, So thronged with a hungry and indolent crew Of clerks, pages, porters and all attaches Whom rascals appoint and the populace pays That a cat cannot slip through the thicket of shins Nor hear its own shriek for the noise of their chins. On clerks and on pages, and porters, and all, Misfortune attend and disaster befall! May life be to them a succession of hurts; May fleas by the bushel inhabit their shirts; May aches and diseases encamp in their bones, Their lungs full of tubercles, bladders of stones; May microbes, bacilli, their tissues infest, And tapeworms securely their bowels digest; May corn-cobs be snared without hope in their hair, And frequent impalement their pleasure impair. Disturbed be their dreams by the awful discourse Of audible sofas sepulchrally hoarse, By chairs acrobatic and wavering floors -- The mattress that kicks and the pillow that snores! Sons of cupidity, cradled in sin! Your criminal ranks may the death angel thin, Avenging the friend whom I couldn't work in. --K.Q.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«A family is but too often a commonwealth of malignants»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
commonwealth, commonwealths, the Commonwealth
«Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared -- this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
commonwealth, commonwealths, feared, For every, hated, maxim, perish, the Commonwealth
«Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach?ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem?bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub?ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
| About:
Equality,
Inequality,
Privilege
| Keywords:
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«Plots, true or false, are necessary things, to raise up commonwealths, and ruin kings.»
Author: John Dryden
(Critic, Dramatist, Poet)
| Keywords:
commonwealths, plots, raise up, the Commonwealth
«These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
| Keywords:
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