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    Quote of the Day

    Posted by Chicago Boyz Archive on August 13th, 2013 (All posts by )

    It is extraordinary how long a nation will allow itself to be misgoverned.

    Rudolf Binding, A Fatalist at War (1926/1929)

     

    This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 13th, 2013 at 7:25 pm and is filed under Book Notes, Quotations. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

    8 Responses to “Quote of the Day”

    1. David Foster Says:
      August 13th, 2013 at 8:07 pm

      He was speaking about….?

    2. Lexington Green Says:
      August 13th, 2013 at 8:35 pm

      Russia. He has a diary entry when he heard about the March 1917 Revolution. But it struck me as being of general, maybe universal, application.

    3. David Foster Says:
      August 13th, 2013 at 9:11 pm

      Yeah, I figured it was intended for general applicability, but thought maybe it had been inspired by something the Kaiser or one of his minions did…

    4. ErisGuy Says:
      August 14th, 2013 at 6:33 am

      Centuries, if Russia is any guide. Millennia,if Italy.

    5. Jonathan Says:
      August 14th, 2013 at 6:44 am

      Depends on the culture?

    6. Lexington Green Says:
      August 14th, 2013 at 12:17 pm

      Depends if the people are actually a “nation” which implies some self-awareness and literacy. But more generally it is a sad fact that masses of people are held enslaved by tiny numbers of people because the tiny group are armed and have self-confidence in their right to rule, and the inchoate mass cannot get organized to overthrow them. That is most of history. Nauseating.

    7. MikeK Says:
      August 14th, 2013 at 12:25 pm

      It is certainly the story of Iran right now.

      I think it was Adam Smith who said “There is a lot of ruin in a great nation.” I fear we are test that hypothesis this century.

    8. Ralf Goergens Says:
      August 18th, 2013 at 12:16 pm

      Russia. He has a diary entry when he heard about the March 1917 Revolution.

      The Czarist regime was the justification the Social Democrat leadership could offer to their base for supporting the war loans in the Reichstag. Without the party’s support the loans wouldn’t have been approved by parliament and Germany wouldn’t have been able to go to war. Funny how things turn out sometimes.

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