 ... one of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change,...  For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto - Page 68by Murray Newton Rothbard - 1978 - 338 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Henry Louis Mencken - American essays - 1922 - 336 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...very apt to spread discontent among those who are. Ludwig van Beethoven was certainly no politician. Nor was he a patriot. Nor had he any democratic illusions... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - American essays - 1922 - 334 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, 289 290 PREJUDICES: THIRD SERIES and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is... | |
 | Henry Louis Mencken - American literature - 1922 - 338 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, 290 PREJUDICES: THIRD SERIES and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not... | |
 | Terry M. Perlin - Political Science - 316 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...very apt to spread discontent among those who are." HL Mencken, A Mencken Crestomathv (New York: Knopf, 1949), p. 145. 18. Ibid., pp. 146-47. 19. De Jouvenel,... | |
 | David Boaz - History - 1986 - 138 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change and hence, an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos." One such man is Nobel laureate... | |
 | Murray Newton Rothbard - Libertarianism - 2000 - 354 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos.^1 Similarly, the libertarian writer Albert Jay Nock saw in the political conflicts between... | |
 | Murray Newton Rothbard - Anarchism - 2007 - 231 pages
...can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...change it. And even if he is not romantic personally [as Mencken clearly was not] he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are. . . . The ideal... | |
 | Erin Gruwell - Education - 2007 - 808 pages
...schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — ABRAHAM LINCOLN The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost invariably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable... | |
 | 865 pages
...see in an original idea is potential change, 15 and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is...prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably GO ON TO THE NEXT PAGE Passage 1: From A Mencken Chresthomathy by HL Mencken, copyright 1916, 1918,... | |
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