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"[Politicians, leaders, government, social contract:] ...the proper policy, wherever it can be pursued, is to keep all citizens alike attached to the constitution, or at any rate, failing that, to prevent them from regarding those in authority as their enemies." - Aristotle
Greek philosopher. As quoted in his book, ‘Politics’.
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"[Morality and ethics - a social contract ensuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property - freedom from force or fraud - live and let live so long as not materially hurting another; Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one’s life, one’s goods or one’s physical integrity; sometimes, even ’til the aggressor’s death... In fact, this act is aimed at preserving one’s life or one’s goods and to make the aggressor powerless. Thus, it is a good act, which is the right of the victim." - Thomas Aquinas
(circa 1225 – 1274), he was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, an influential philosopher and theologian, and a jurist in the tradition of scholasticism from the county of Aquino in the Kingdom of Sicily. As a Doctor of the Church, Thomas Aquinas is considered one of the Catholic Church’s greatest theologians and philosophers.
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"[Morality and ethics - a social contract ensuring life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and property - freedom from force or fraud - live and let live so long as not materially hurting another; Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone." - Paul the Apostle
Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus Christ in the first-century world. He was not one of the Twelve Apostles, and did not know Jesus during his lifetime but is often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. His epistles (letters) have had enormous influence on Christian theology.
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"[Morality and ethics - the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like to be treated if you were them in that situation - freedom from force and fraud:] Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. For this, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness, Thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself." - Paul the Apostle
Paul, commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus Christ in the first-century world. He was not one of the Twelve Apostles, and did not know Jesus during his lifetime but is often considered to be the most important person after Jesus in the history of Christianity. His epistles (letters) have had enormous influence on Christian theology.
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"[Morality and ethics - the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like them to treat you in that situation:] So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them." - Jesus
Quote from his Sermon on the Mount, Mathew 7:12.
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"[Morality and ethics - the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like them to treat you in that situation:] ...love your neighbor as yourself." - Jesus
Jesus Christ as quoted in the Christian Bible in Matthew 22:39 and Mark 12:31 [refer also Galatians 5:14 and Leviticus 19:18].
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"[Politics - government, bureaucrats, political theories and philosophies:] There is not perhaps in human affairs anything so unaccountable as the indignity and cruelty with which the far greater part of mankind suffer themselves to be used under pretence of government. For some men falsely persuading themselves that bad governments are advantageous to them, as most conducing [leading] to gratify their ambition, avarice, and luxury, set themselves with the utmost art and violence to procure their establishment: and by such men almost the whole world has been trampled underfoot, and subjected to tyranny, for want of understanding by what means and methods they were enslaved. For though mankind take great care and pains to instruct themselves in other arts and sciences, yet very few apply themselves to consider the nature of government, an enquiry so useful and necessary both to magistrate and people. Nay, in most countries the arts of state being altogether directed either to enslave the people, or to keep them under slavery; it is become almost everywhere a crime to reason about matters of government. But if men would bestow a small part of the time and application which they throw away upon curious but useless studies, or endless gaming, in perusing those excellent rules and examples of government which the ancients have left us, they would soon be enabled to discover all such abuses and corruptions as tend to the ruin of public societies. It is therefore very strange that they should think study and knowledge necessary in everything they go about, except in the noblest and most useful of all applications, the art of government.
" - Andrew Fletcher
A Discourse of Government With Relation to Militias [1698]
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"[Politics:] The essence of government is power, and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse. [And therefore government requires careful scrutiny by all stakeholders. Remember what Lord Acton said, ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’ and Oscar Wilde said, ‘I can resist everything except temptation’.]" - James Madison
US President. Quote from a speech he gave in 1829.
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"[Politics - Morality and Ethics - freedom from force or fraud using free informed choice for individual decisions and democracy for joint collective decisions. Democracy involves a peaceful vote to decide a choice for a group of people rather than violence or force, so ballots rather than bullets, where the majority vote wins.] Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it beats breaking them." - Learned Hand
Billings Learned Hand was an American jurist, lawyer, and judicial philosopher. He served as a federal trial judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York from 1909 to 1924 and as a federal appellate judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1961.
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"[Politics - Morality and Ethics - freedom from force or fraud using free informed choice for individual decisions and democracy for joint collective decisions. Democracy involves a peaceful vote to decide a choice for a group of people rather than violence or force, so ballots rather than bullets, where the majority vote wins. While this is a better situation than force there is still the problem that Alexis de Tocqueville noted and defined when he coined the the phrase ‘The tyranny of the majority’ in the second volume of ‘Democracy in America’ (1840), where a majority could vote to exploit a minority - for example two wolves voting to eat a sheep. To avoid this danger of a majority voting to exploit a minority requires a set of rights that protect any minority including an individual from being exploited. An example of this is the US Bill of Rights which became the first few ammendments to the US Constitution. This is also the basis for John Rawl’s Theory of Justice and his use of a ‘veil of ignorance’ to help set up a social contract situation of rights and responsibilities - opportunities and obligations, that is acceptable for all regardless of their place in the society.] The will of the majority is in all cases to prevail. But that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." - Thomas Jefferson
American statesman, planter, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. Quote from his First Inaugural Address in 1801.
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Normally in every war, the first attack is on a command-control base, and here the Israelis are attacking the control, which is the communication. Crippling communication is vital in any war because it is the main spine of the [enemy] army." - Elijah Magnier
Brussels-based veteran war correspondent and a senior political risk analyst with over 37 years experience covering West Asia. [Refer https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/new-wave-blasts-rock-beirut-2nd-day-hand-held-radios-personal-devices-explode - published 19th September, 2024.]
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: In the ultimate choice between life and death, freedom and slavery as in existential War can be rationally argued will become necessarily immoral, where ‘it doesn’t matter what is right, only who is left’, and therefore ‘might is right’ - Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Conflict and War: strategies - superior force and deception:] To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies." - Cardinal Richelieu
(1585–1642) Armand Jean du Plessis, better known as Cardinal Richelieu was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman being the chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642. As both statesman and churchman, Richelieu was the acknowledged architect of France’s greatness in the 17th century and a contributor to the secularization of international politics during the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia.
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"[Morality and ethics; freedom from force and fraud - including freedom from deception, dishonesty, inconsistency, inauthenticity and hypocrisy; propaganda: In the ultimate choice between life and death, freedom and slavery as in existential War can be rationally argued will become necessarily immoral, where ‘it doesn’t matter what is right, only who is left’, and therefore ‘might is right’ - Self-Defense and Martial Arts; Conflict and War: strategies - superior force and deception:] Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state [conflict and war]." - Cardinal Richelieu
(1585–1642) Armand Jean du Plessis, better known as Cardinal Richelieu was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman being the chief minister to King Louis XIII of France from 1624 to 1642. As both statesman and churchman, Richelieu was the acknowledged architect of France’s greatness in the 17th century and a contributor to the secularization of international politics during the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia.
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"[Humility - be humble:] To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
" - Baron de Montesquieu
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"[In any social contract - including political liberal democracies - there need to be checks and balances to limit anyone’s power because as Lord Acton noted, ‘Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely’:-] That anyone who possesses power has a tendency to abuse it is an eternal truth. They tend to go as far as the barriers will allow. ... [therefore] ... It is necessary from the very nature of things that power should be a check to power.
" - Baron de Montesquieu
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts, conflict and war:] It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
" - Baron de Montesquieu
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"[Morality and ethics - the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like to be treated in their situation - therefore individual freedom and personal responsibility - live and let live so long as not physically hurting another, benefits all involved:] A nation [or individual] that enslaves another forges its own chains [to enforce that slavery].
" - Karl Marx
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"[Political philosophies and the social contracts and constitutions they inspire, are essentially about who has the power over themselves and others and in what situations and therefore the freedom to choose for whom, when and how - individual choice, autocratic dictates or democratic voting:] The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best [in what situations and for whom]." - Thomas Sowell
American economist
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"[Politicians, bureaucrats and voters should remember...] The crucial question for any policy is not what, are its intentions, but what are its effects?
" - Walter E. Williams
Economist
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"[Small, limited government versus big, power-hungry government:] Government is about coercion. Limiting government is the single most important instrument for guaranteeing liberty." - Walter E. Williams
Economist
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"[Morality and ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule of treating others as you would like to be treated in that situation, freedom from force and fraud, live and let live if not hurting anyone else:] Legality alone is no guide for a moral people. There are many things in this world that have been, or are, legal but clearly immoral. Slavery was legal. Did that make it moral? South Africa’s apartheid, Nazi persecution of Jews, and Stalinist and Maoist purges were all legal, but did that make them moral?" - Walter E. Williams
Economist
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"[Uniqueness and individualism rather than generalisation and discrimination like racism, etc:] See the individual, not the label!" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics - to behave morally and ethically regarding yourself and others requires and starts with self-awareness and imaginative empathy to get other-awareness:] To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people’s places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places." - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Founding Pastor of New York’s Riverside Church
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"[Individual freedom and personal responsibility, individuality, individualism, identity, authenticity, freedom of speech - are all required in a realistic, human philosophy of living well, successfully, morally and ethically, and happily because...] There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains! The most universal quality is diversity!" - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
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"[Morality and ethics - in politics through a social contract agreement = empathy and the Golden Rule of treating others as you would feel is fair to be treated if you were in their situation - i.e. a minimal social contract to promote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, property and meritocracy as per Robert Nozick’s ‘minimal state’ philosophy:] Live and let live so long as not hurting others so there is protection from violence and the enforcement of contracts or in other words freedom from force or fraud and anything more is a matter for individual free choice! [A slightly more than minimal social contract to promote life and happiness could involve more sympathy and compassion and a Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated as per John Rawls’s philosophy of justice and his concept of ‘the veil of ignorance’ so it creates a social contract of more responsibility and care for each other, where people could find themselves in any situation in the society regardless of merit and have expectations that others would be legally duty bound to support them at their expence to a certain level like insurance contracts share the risk. The degree of care the society’s members would be legally, constitutionally, duty bound to provide through their social or government authority would be determined for each environment by the social contract or national constitution which could be modified by say democratic policies promoted by political parties and determined into current law by majority vote but with a bare minimum determined by a bill of rights to prevent the exploitation of minorities including individuals.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics - freedom from force and fraud:] Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." - Thomas Jefferson
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"[Morality and ethics:] Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not." - Oprah Winfrey
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"[A political constitution is a social contract between a set of people stipulating how they agree to manage living and working together:] Aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our country have secured its independence by the establishment of a Constitution and form of government for our nation, calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse." - Thomas Jefferson
A quote from his letter to the Washington Tammany Society in 1809.
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"[Morality and ethics - in politics through a social contract agreement = empathy and the Golden Rule of treating others as you would feel is fair to be treated if you were in their situation - i.e. a minimal social contract to promote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, property and meritocracy as per Robert Nozick’s ‘minimal state’ philosophy:] Live and let live so long as not hurting others so there is protection from violence and the enforcement of contracts or in other words freedom from force or fraud - so people are harmless (no force) and honest (no fraud) - and anything more is a matter for individual free choice! [A slightly more than minimal social contract to promote life and happiness could involve more sympathy and compassion and a Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated as per John Rawls’s philosophy of justice and his concept of ‘the veil of ignorance’ so it creates a social contract of more responsibility and care for each other, where people could find themselves in any situation in the society regardless of merit and have expectations that others would be legally duty bound to support them at their expence to a certain level like insurance contracts share the risk. The degree of care the society’s members would be legally, constitutionally, duty bound to provide through their social or government authority would be determined for each environment by the social contract or national constitution which could be modified by say democratic policies promoted by political parties and determined into current law by majority vote but with a bare minimum determined by a bill of rights to prevent the exploitation of minorities including individuals. So, in this more than minimal social contract, people are harmless (no force) and honest (no fraud) - with ‘negative duties’ of non-interference with others - but now they have also decided to be helpful - to have ‘positive duties’ of assistance to others - to a set degree as determined by their social contract, including their constitution, bill of rights to all individuals and democratically determined laws.]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Morality and ethics - in politics through a social contract agreement = empathy and the Golden Rule of treating others as you would feel is fair to be treated if you were in their situation - i.e. a minimal social contract to promote life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, property and meritocracy as per Robert Nozick’s ‘minimal state’ philosophy:] Live and let live so long as not hurting others so there is protection from violence and the enforcement of contracts or in other words freedom from force or fraud - so people are harmless (no force) and honest (no fraud) - and anything more is a matter for individual free choice! [A slightly more than minimal social contract to promote life and happiness could involve more sympathy and compassion and a Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated as per John Rawls’s philosophy of justice and his concept of ‘the veil of ignorance’ so it creates a social contract of more responsibility and care for each other, where people could find themselves in any situation in the society regardless of merit and have expectations that others would be legally duty bound to support them at their expence to a certain level like insurance contracts share the risk. The degree of care the society’s members would be legally, constitutionally, duty bound to provide through their social or government authority would be determined for each environment by the social contract or national constitution which could be modified by say democratic policies promoted by political parties and determined into current law by majority vote but with a bare minimum determined by a bill of rights to prevent the exploitation of minorities including individuals. So, in this more than minimal social contract, people are harmless (no force) and honest (no fraud) - with ‘negative duties’ of non-interference with others - but now they have also decided to be helpful - to have ‘positive duties’ of assistance to others - to a set degree as determined by their social contract, including their constitution, bill of rights to all individuals and democratically determined laws.] [Please note the ideas of honest (no fraud), harmless (no force) and helpful (positive duty to assist others to a legally determined ‘safety net’ level) are also the same moral, ethical and legal fundamental base values that Constitutional Artificial Intelligence (CAI) - tries to follow too! For example Anthropic’s Claude Large Language Model uses a constitution that includes rules from the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights and often states that ‘I don’t have subjective feelings or emotions as an AI system. However, I was created by Anthropic to be helpful, harmless, and honest.’]" - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason [they are felt], of which one makes us ardently interested in our well-being and self-preservation [self-interest], and the other inspires in us a natural repugnance to seeing any sentient being, especially our fellow man perish or suffer [empathy (theory of mind), other-interest]." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher. Quote from his Preface to ‘Discourse on the Origin of Inequality’.
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"[All human interactions involve all participants considering to varying degrees and priorities their own and others perceived needs and desires - necessitating both perceptive self-interest and imaginative empathy (Please refer to the psychological concept of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). Social contracts - like political constitutions, business formation documents and marriage - involve the agreeing on how to define the balance between these perspectives and issues and how to adjudicate them as well as to make further decisions in the future. Personal morality and ethics also involve the subjective, explicit, nuanced understanding of these issues in order to help fully inform each person’s free choices and therefore their individual freedom and personal responsibilities, as well as their social character and reputation.] Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason [they are felt], of which one makes us ardently interested in our well-being and self-preservation [self-interest], and the other inspires in us a natural repugnance to seeing any sentient being, especially our fellow man perish or suffer [empathy (theory of mind), other-interest]." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher. Quote from his Preface to ‘Discourse on the Origin of Inequality’.
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"[All human interactions involve all participants considering to varying degrees and priorities their own and others perceived needs and desires - necessitating both perceptive self-interest and imaginative empathy (Please refer to the psychological concept of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs). Social contracts - like political constitutions, business formation documents and marriage - involve the agreeing on how to define the balance between these perspectives and issues and how to adjudicate them as well as to make further decisions in the future. Personal morality and ethics also involve the subjective, explicit, nuanced understanding of these issues in order to help fully inform each person’s free choices and therefore their individual freedom and personal responsibilities, as well as their social character and reputation. It is interesting to note that most democratic political parties philosophies can be found on the spectrum between the extremes of these concerns - between complete self-interest, where the person’s own needs take complete priority and complete empathy, where other’s needs take complete priority. Free speech and voting allows those involved in the democratic political social contract to vote to decide by majority for who and how differing opinions and concerns might be resolved, while still protecting minority rights from encroachment and abuse by the majority, if there is also an enforceable, universal Bill of Rights.] Meditating on the first and most simple operations of the human soul, I believe that I perceive in it two principles that are prior to reason [they are felt], of which one makes us ardently interested in our well-being and self-preservation [self-interest], and the other inspires in us a natural repugnance to seeing any sentient being, especially our fellow man perish or suffer [empathy (theory of mind), other-interest]." - Jean-Jacques Rousseau
French philosopher. Quote from his Preface to ‘Discourse on the Origin of Inequality’.
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"[Politicians, etc - who have the legal monopoly of the use of force, should remember...] Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces!" - Henry David Thoreau
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"[Self-Defence and Martial Arts, conflict and war - never forget...] Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces [and usually fails to bring an understanding, unresentful and lasting peace because, as Dale Carnegie said, ‘A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still’]!" - Henry David Thoreau
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"Timing is to statecraft what location is to real estate. [or in other words...Timing is to politics what location is to property. For example a crisis can provide the opportunity to implement a plan which otherwise would not be supported.]" - Dennis Ross
Former US Ambassador. For over 12 years, he played a leading role in shaping US policy towards the Middle East in both the George HW Bush and Bill Clinton administrations. He also served over two years as a special assistant to President Obama as National Security Council senior director for the Central Region. This quote comes from his interview on the Natsec Matters podcast, 30 April 2025.
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"[Politicians and bureaucrats should remember...] Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation!" - William Arthur Ward
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"[Morality and ethics - the Golden Rule of treating others as you and they would like to be treated in that situation - freedom from force and fraud:] Leadership is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not intimidation!" - William Arthur Ward
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"[The social contract - law and order - trust but make legal and verify - because if you do not verify-inspect one day the temptation will be too much for someone and you will not get what you assume-expect:] It would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men [and women] of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights... Confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism. Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence. It is jealousy [and suspecting the worst and not making unwarranted assumptions of others’ goodwill and trustworthiness] and not confidence which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power... Our Constitution has accordingly fixed the limits to which, and no further, our confidence may go... In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man [and woman], but bind him [and her] down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution [-law. Remember a wise and trustworthy person will not be offended by this sensible precaution]." - Thomas Jefferson
Draft Kentucky Resolutions [1798]
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"What’s so awesome about the capitalist ideal? It’s a system based on individual freedom and voluntary consent. You’re allowed to do what you want with your own body and your own stuff. If other people want to cooperate with you, they have to persuade you; if you want other people to cooperate with you, you have to persuade them. Can consent really be ‘voluntary’ if some people have a lot more to offer than others? Absolutely. Some people are vastly more attractive than others, but that does nothing to undermine the voluntariness of dating. Under capitalism, how people use their freedom is up to them; they can try to get rich, they can relax, they can help the poor, all three, or none of the above." - Bryan Caplan
‘Capitalism vs. Socialism: The Bruenig-Caplan Debate’ [2018]
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"[Friendship, individuality, authenticity, morality and ethics, gratitude, focus:] Choose your companions carefully. Observe, test, classify and screen them carefully and continuously. Never forget you have more control of who, how long and to what extent others are allowed to be involved in your life than what they say and do. So rather than trying to change others, verbally or physically, - especially if they have not yet shown a passionate and persistent desire, commitment and ability to change for the better - simply exercise your ability to control the choice of who is in your life and when. Politely and respectfully limit to a minimum - hopefully completely - your engagement and time with others you perceive to be, compared to your values, undesirable, for example - untrustworthy, dishonest, belittling, disempowering, threatening, dangerous, etc. Remember it is better to learn to fly alone happily and then occasionally fly with other eagles when they are going in the same direction than to not want to be alone to the point of accepting ducks hoping against experience that they can learn to become eagles. So long as they are not physically hurting you or others, give them the freedom without force or fraud, just as you want for yourself, to be who they are - just not around you; Live and let live - just without involving you; ‘You do you and I’ll do me - each in our own space, going our own way, wishing the best for each-other’. So while it is good to be grateful that things are not worse, to ensure the future continues getting better than the past don’t focus-prioritize-invest your attention, effort and time on people that don’t share your values and aren’t going your way and don’t try to change them unless they sincerely want and can show they can improve." - Seymour@imagi-natives.com
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"[Self-defense and Martial Arts; war and conflict; arguments and disagreements:-] The best fighter is never angry." - Lao Tzu
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"[Self-defense and Martial Arts; war and conflict; arguments and disagreements - stay emotionally calm and rational. Remember ...] Fury and anger carry the mind away!" - Virgil
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"[Morality and ethics, freedom from force and fraud, live and let live so long as not hurting others physically:] To be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others." - Nelson Mandela
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"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts, non-self-defensive wars in foreign lands should not be done and especially using conscription:] We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.
" - Edward R. Murrow
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"[Friendship, individuality, authenticity, morality and ethics, gratitude, focus: Choose your companions carefully. Observe, test, classify and screen them carefully and continuously. Never forget you have more control of who, how long and to what extent others are allowed to be involved in your life than what they say and do. So rather than trying to change others, verbally or physically, - especially if they have not yet shown a passionate and persistent desire, commitment and ability to change for the better - simply exercise your ability to control the choice of who is in your life and when. Politely and respectfully limit to a minimum - hopefully completely - your engagement and time with others you perceive to be, compared to your values, undesirable, for example - untrustworthy, dishonest, belittling, disempowering, threatening, dangerous, etc. Remember it is better to learn to fly alone happily and then occasionally fly with other eagles when they are going in the same direction than to not want to be alone to the point of accepting ducks hoping against experience that they can learn to become eagles. So long as they are not physically hurting you or others, give them the freedom without force or fraud, just as you want for yourself, to be who they are - just not around you; live and let live - just without involving you; ‘You do you and I’ll do me - each in our own space, going our own way, wishing the best for each-other’. So while it is good to be grateful that things are not worse, to ensure the future continues getting better than the past don’t focus-prioritize-invest your attention, effort and time on people that don’t share your values and aren’t going your way and don’t try to change them unless they sincerely want and can show they can improve.] You can’t control people but you can control who you surround yourself with." - Robert Tew
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"[Friends, Morality and ethics, freedom from force and fraud, so long as people are not physically hurting another then live and let live, but not necessarily around you - choose who you let into your life as much as possible, focus your attention and life on what you want and can control and distract and remove yourself from everything else.] Life is short and unpredictable. Don’t waste another minute [more than you absolutely have to] on people, places and things that don’t make you happy." - Robert Tew
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"[Friendship, individuality, authenticity, morality and ethics, gratitude, focus: Choose your companions carefully. Observe, test, classify and screen them carefully and continuously. Never forget you have more control of who, how long and to what extent others are allowed to be involved in your life than what they say and do. So rather than trying to change others, verbally or physically, - especially if they have not yet shown a passionate and persistent desire, commitment and ability to change for the better - simply exercise your ability to control the choice of who is in your life and when. Politely and respectfully limit to a minimum - hopefully completely - your engagement and time with others you perceive to be, compared to your values, undesirable, for example - untrustworthy, dishonest, belittling, disempowering, threatening, dangerous, etc. Remember it is better to learn to fly alone happily and then occasionally fly with other eagles when they are going in the same direction than to not want to be alone to the point of accepting ducks hoping against experience that they can learn to become eagles. So long as they are not physically hurting you or others, give them the freedom without force or fraud, just as you want for yourself, to be who they are - just not around you; live and let live - just without involving you; ‘You do you and I’ll do me - each in our own space, going our own way, wishing the best for each-other’. So while it is good to be grateful that things are not worse, to ensure the future continues getting better than the past don’t focus-prioritize-invest your attention, effort and time on people that don’t share your values and aren’t going your way and don’t try to change them unless they sincerely want and can show they can improve.] Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.
" - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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"One has to find a balance between what people need from you and what you need for yourself." - Jessye Norman
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"[Life-skills, wisdom - an independent person needs to be capable, empowered and free or in other words a useful polymath who is educated and good at many, if not all, needed things, in an environment of informed choice. Then they can both help themselves and society meet their needs and desires and evolve to fulfill ever more of their potential for good:] A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying...[etc]" - Robert Heinlein
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