Nothing Is Absolute, With The Debatable Exceptions

Democracy Is The Only System Capable Of Reflecting The Humanist Premise Of Equilibrium Or Balance. The Key To Its Secret Is The Involvement Of The Citizen.

Happy Family: The Existence And Maintenance Of [this] Is Thought To Make A Politician Fit For Public Office. According To This Theory, The Public Are Less Concerned By Whether Or Not They Are Effectively Represented Than By The Need To Be Assured That The Penises And Vaginas Of Public Officials Are Only Used In Legally Sanctioned Circumstances.

Marx Was Fortunate To Have Been Born Eighty Years Before Walt Disney. Disney Also Promised A Child's Paradise And Unlike Marx, Delivered On His Promise.

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

Not Only Is The Napoleonic Dream Stronger Today In Our Imaginations Than It Has Ever Been, But One Can Already Feel The Slow Falling Away Of Moral Opprobrium From Our Memory Of Hitler. In Another Fifty Years We May Well Find Ourselves Weighed Down By A Second Monstrous Dream Of Pure Grandeur To Match That Of The Emperor. Two Men Who Dared. Two Men Who Were Adored. Two Men Who Led With Brilliance. Two Men Who Administered Fairly And Efficiently. Two Men Who Were Modest In Their Own Needs But Surrounded By Lesser Beings Who Profited From Their Situation And Came Between The Hero And The People.