Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
UPDATE 2000 HRS EDT 28 APRIL 2009: Read also this background piece on Goethe's political views, courtesy of an anonymous commenter.
"No one would talk much in society if they knew how often they misunderstood others."
ReplyDeletenow there is a man who was beginning to understand the tao.
I used to have the first quote on the door at work, and watched it definitely confuse the boss of the next department over. I think that means it was a successful message.
ReplyDeleteI was going to type something awesome, but the fueng shwei or some other damn thing was so wrong I wound up shooting my keyboard, ten times, with a .45. All you eggheads happy now? Shit, hows a man supposed to have a bowel movement with a bunch of buffaloe rifles pointed at him?
ReplyDeleteSee Hans-Hermann Hoppe on The Politics of Johann Wolfgang Goethe http://mises.org/story/357
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