NeoNote — Pagans and climate change
Those of us who follow Earth-centered paths want to believe that we are uniquely qualified to help.
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Practical politics
Thursday - 13Dec2018 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums&Politics
““The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.””
NeoNotes — Consider historical context to violence
What is to stop someone else from deciding that it's a good cause to thump you over the head? Once the excuses start, what's to protect you from the politics of the day?
Read More...Defending scoundrels
Tuesday - 22Aug2017 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums
““The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.””
— H. L. Mencken
“Isaiah's Job”
For length reasons, this entry appears on it's own page.
This first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly in 1936. It was published by William Morrow & Company of New York in the now out of print Nock's own Free Speech and Plain Language in 1937.
Read More...“The Nature of Liberty”
Thursday - 17Nov2016 Filed in: American classic&Morality & Modern Life&Law&Liberty&Quotes & Thinkums
H.L. Mencken is always worth your time.
This version is from Prejudices: Third Series (1922)
For length reasons, this entry has it's own page.
Read More...Ideas
Monday - 24Oct2016 Filed in: Quotes & Thinkums&Law
““The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.””
— H.L. Mencken, A Mencken Chrestomathy