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[Marko Mehle]

Ravno berem:

The institutions of a township are to freedom what primary school is to science; they put it within reach of people; they make them taste its peaceful employ and habituate them to making use of it.

Without the institutions of a township a nation can give itself a free goverment, but it does not have the spirit of freedom. Fleeting passions, the interests of a moment, the chance of circunstances can give it the external forms of independence; but despotism suppressed in the interior of the social body reappears sooner or later on the surface.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America.

Pa povejte, če se vam porodi kakšna asociacija... :)

Lp!

[Marko Mehle]

Še ena cvetka o centralizaciji in o (pre)močni državi:

What does it matter to me, after all, that there should be an authority always on its feet, keeping watch that my pleasures are tranquil, flying ahead of my steps to turn away every danger without my even needing to think about it, if this authority, at the same that it removes the least thorns on my path, is absolute master of my freedom and my life, if it monopolizes movement and existence to such a point that everything arround it must languish when it languishes, that everything must sleep when it sleeps, that everything must perish if it dies?

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When nations arrive at this point, they must modify their laws and their mores or they perish, for the source of public virtues is almost dried up; one still finds sunjects in them, but no one longer sees citizens.

Tocqueville 

 

 

2013/2/6 Boštjan Furlan <supe...@gmail.com>

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2013/2/4 Marko Mehle <marko...@gmail.com>

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