The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken
Of course, we must save the poor peasants from themselves. It’s never about; “Let us make laws to stop us from doing what we want”, it is always to stop other people from doing what THEY want.
Sieg Heil.
Exactly. And Mencken had this other one that speaks to that, “Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”