Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared to the gradual encroachment of ideas. Not, indeed, immediately, but after a certain interval; for in the field of economic and political philosophy there are not many who are influenced by new theories after they are 25 or 30 years of age, so that the ideas which civil servants and politicians and even agitators apply to current events are not likely to be the newest. But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Why doesn't someone pass out 435 long, sharp knives in the chambers of the US House of Representatives, and see what happens? The last one alive...
Yeah well I screamed the same thing over Walmart 20 years ago, and nobody listened. Now China has the middle class since Americans sent all their...
What rank stinking hypocrisy! "The meeting of the EU's 28 foreign ministers discussed possible ways to help reduce tensions between Iran and the...
I wonder if these two women would be surprised if most people have very little sympathy for either of them.
Sounds like Mana from the Exodus. This might be exactly what they were eating out there in the desert.
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