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A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
[Je conviendrai sans peine que la paix publique est un grand bien; mais je ne veux pas oublier cependant que c’est à travers le bon ordre que tous les peuples sont arrivés à la tyrannie. Il ne s’ensuit pas assurément que les peuples doivent mépriser la paix publique; mais il ne faut pas qu’elle leur suffise. Une nation qui ne demande à son gouvernement que le maintien de l’ordre est déjà esclave au fond du cœur; elle est esclave de son bien-être, et l’homme qui doit l’enchaîner peut paraître.]Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America [De la démocratie en Amérique], Part 2, ch. 14 (1835) [tr. Goldhammer (2004)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/tocqueville-alexis-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexisdetocqueville #declineandfall #government #lawandorder #order #peace #security #tranquility #tyranny
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A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
[Je conviendrai sans peine que la paix publique est un grand bien; mais je ne veux pas oublier cependant que c’est à travers le bon ordre que tous les peuples sont arrivés à la tyrannie. Il ne s’ensuit pas assurément que les peuples doivent mépriser la paix publique; mais il ne faut pas qu’elle leur suffise. Une nation qui ne demande à son gouvernement que le maintien de l’ordre est déjà esclave au fond du cœur; elle est esclave de son bien-être, et l’homme qui doit l’enchaîner peut paraître.]Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America [De la démocratie en Amérique], Part 2, ch. 14 (1835) [tr. Goldhammer (2004)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/tocqueville-alexis-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexisdetocqueville #declineandfall #government #lawandorder #order #peace #security #tranquility #tyranny
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A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
[Je conviendrai sans peine que la paix publique est un grand bien; mais je ne veux pas oublier cependant que c’est à travers le bon ordre que tous les peuples sont arrivés à la tyrannie. Il ne s’ensuit pas assurément que les peuples doivent mépriser la paix publique; mais il ne faut pas qu’elle leur suffise. Une nation qui ne demande à son gouvernement que le maintien de l’ordre est déjà esclave au fond du cœur; elle est esclave de son bien-être, et l’homme qui doit l’enchaîner peut paraître.]Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America [De la démocratie en Amérique], Part 2, ch. 14 (1835) [tr. Goldhammer (2004)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/tocqueville-alexis-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexisdetocqueville #declineandfall #government #lawandorder #order #peace #security #tranquility #tyranny
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A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
[Je conviendrai sans peine que la paix publique est un grand bien; mais je ne veux pas oublier cependant que c’est à travers le bon ordre que tous les peuples sont arrivés à la tyrannie. Il ne s’ensuit pas assurément que les peuples doivent mépriser la paix publique; mais il ne faut pas qu’elle leur suffise. Une nation qui ne demande à son gouvernement que le maintien de l’ordre est déjà esclave au fond du cœur; elle est esclave de son bien-être, et l’homme qui doit l’enchaîner peut paraître.]Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America [De la démocratie en Amérique], Part 2, ch. 14 (1835) [tr. Goldhammer (2004)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/tocqueville-alexis-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexisdetocqueville #declineandfall #government #lawandorder #order #peace #security #tranquility #tyranny
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A quotation from Alexis de Tocqueville
I am quite prepared to concede that public peace is a great good, yet I do not want to forget that every nation that has ended in tyranny has come to that end by way of good order. It certainly does not follow from this that peoples should scorn public peace, but neither should they be satisfied with that and nothing more. A nation that asks nothing of government but the maintenance of order is already a slave in the depths of its heart; it is a slave of its well-being, ready for the man who will put it in chains.
Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French writer, diplomat, politician
Democracy in America [De la démocratie en Amérique], Part 2, ch. 14 (1835) [tr. Goldhammer (2004)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/tocqueville-alexis-d…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #alexisdetocqueville #declineandfall #government #lawandorder #order #peace #security #tranquility #tyranny
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Fucking Gibbon can't go more than two paragraphs without using "former" and/or "latter"
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Fucking Gibbon can't go more than two paragraphs without using "former" and/or "latter"
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There is the moral of all human tales;
‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76512/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #corruption #cycle #decadence #history #riseandfall #decline #declineandfall
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There is the moral of all human tales;
‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76512/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #corruption #cycle #decadence #history #riseandfall #decline #declineandfall
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There is the moral of all human tales;
‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76512/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #corruption #cycle #decadence #history #riseandfall #decline #declineandfall
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A quotation from Byron
There is the moral of all human tales;
‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76512/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #corruption #cycle #decadence #history #riseandfall #decline #declineandfall
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A lot of what the regime does is driven by greed, of course. Make as much money as possible as fast as possible. But I'm increasingly convinced just as much of it is toddler-like gleeful destruction for its own sake.
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A lot of what the regime does is driven by greed, of course. Make as much money as possible as fast as possible. But I'm increasingly convinced just as much of it is toddler-like gleeful destruction for its own sake.
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A lot of what the regime does is driven by greed, of course. Make as much money as possible as fast as possible. But I'm increasingly convinced just as much of it is toddler-like gleeful destruction for its own sake.
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A lot of what the regime does is driven by greed, of course. Make as much money as possible as fast as possible. But I'm increasingly convinced just as much of it is toddler-like gleeful destruction for its own sake.
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When the US is a smouldering, smoking husk of a ruin, how will you describe what it was like before the 'Mump' coup? Give it your best shot in the comments below. #DeclineAndFall
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Absurd and comedic satire on British "appearances" and class with plenty of lowkey digs at other topics along the way. Unfortunately, 100 years later, we are reminded that not all "humor" ages equally well.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #satire #britishhumor #absurdism
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Absurd and comedic satire on British "appearances" and class with plenty of lowkey digs at other topics along the way. Unfortunately, 100 years later, we are reminded that not all "humor" ages equally well.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #satire #britishhumor #absurdism
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Absurd and comedic satire on British "appearances" and class with plenty of lowkey digs at other topics along the way. Unfortunately, 100 years later, we are reminded that not all "humor" ages equally well.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #satire #britishhumor #absurdism
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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Absurd and comedic satire on British "appearances" and class with plenty of lowkey digs at other topics along the way. Unfortunately, 100 years later, we are reminded that not all "humor" ages equally well.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #satire #britishhumor #absurdism
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My wife heard from a former student today. The student had a job offer in hand from the National Park Service for a fee clerk position at a park visitor center. A worker position, not a policy job.
They got an email today that the job offer had been rescinded, and they'd be notified if the position re-opened so they could apply again.
This is no way to run a business, much less the government of the richest country in the world.
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My wife heard from a former student today. The student had a job offer in hand from the National Park Service for a fee clerk position at a park visitor center. A worker position, not a policy job.
They got an email today that the job offer had been rescinded, and they'd be notified if the position re-opened so they could apply again.
This is no way to run a business, much less the government of the richest country in the world.
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My wife heard from a former student today. The student had a job offer in hand from the National Park Service for a fee clerk position at a park visitor center. A worker position, not a policy job.
They got an email today that the job offer had been rescinded, and they'd be notified if the position re-opened so they could apply again.
This is no way to run a business, much less the government of the richest country in the world.
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My wife heard from a former student today. The student had a job offer in hand from the National Park Service for a fee clerk position at a park visitor center. A worker position, not a policy job.
They got an email today that the job offer had been rescinded, and they'd be notified if the position re-opened so they could apply again.
This is no way to run a business, much less the government of the richest country in the world.
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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Waugh's silly romp through early 20th century high society at once light-hearted and searing satire.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #britishsociety #satire
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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Waugh's silly romp through early 20th century high society at once light-hearted and searing satire.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #britishsociety #satire
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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Waugh's silly romp through early 20th century high society at once light-hearted and searing satire.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #britishsociety #satire
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𝟯 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹” 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Waugh's silly romp through early 20th century high society at once light-hearted and searing satire.
#bookreviews #books #bookworm #readreadread #3words #evelynwaugh #declineandfall #britishsociety #satire
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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜'𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗙𝗮𝗹𝗹" 𝗯𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗹𝘆𝗻 𝗪𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵 -
Realized Waugh had sneaked past me and then this free book came across my old teacher's desk. Perfect!
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Manic Street Preachers - Decline & Fall (Official Lyric Video) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P2xhwcH-2A “#ManicStreetPreachers #DeclineandFall #OfficialLyricVideo” #YouTube
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Manic Street Preachers - Decline & Fall (Official Audio) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viRpkxdBDWA “ #ManicStreetPreachers #DeclineandFall #OfficialAudio” #YouTube
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Manic Street Preachers set to release new single ‘Decline & Fall’ later this week https://buff.ly/3Z9OI1c #musicnews #manicstreetpreachersnewsingle #declineandfall #artistrack #susansmusicpage #music_canada
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Decline and Fall present new track from dark wave EP 'Gloom' - Out now #DeclineandFall
https://www.side-line.com/decline-and-fall-present-new-track-from-dark-wave-ep-gloom-out-now/
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Decline and Fall present new track from dark wave EP 'Gloom' - Out now #DeclineandFall
https://www.side-line.com/decline-and-fall-present-new-track-from-dark-wave-ep-gloom-out-now/
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"Being on the Titanic just after it hits an iceberg isn't so bad. Even an hour or two later it's still manageable. The band is playing some calming music, and there's plenty of nice food to eat.
"It's the ongoing trend that's gotten me nervous."
Internet commenter, on current affairs.
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"Being on the Titanic just after it hits an iceberg isn't so bad. Even an hour or two later it's still manageable. The band is playing some calming music, and there's plenty of nice food to eat.
"It's the ongoing trend that's gotten me nervous."
Internet commenter, on current affairs.
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"Being on the Titanic just after it hits an iceberg isn't so bad. Even an hour or two later it's still manageable. The band is playing some calming music, and there's plenty of nice food to eat.
"It's the ongoing trend that's gotten me nervous."
Internet commenter, on current affairs.
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The Wedding of Margot Beste-Chetwynde and Paul Pennyfeather, in Evelyn Waugh's Decline and Fall. We discuss Waugh's relationship with modernist architecture in our forthcoming bonus episode.
#Waugh #DeclineandFall #Architecture https://ift.tt/31VpDr3