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Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It QUOTES

1 " It is a truth widely recognized that tyranny stems from the consent of the governed as much as democracy does. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

2 " In short, self-rule is workable only when a people are self-sufficient enough to reject the hierarchic system as it stands. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

3 " When it becomes more profitable to make fun of someone or berate them for their beliefs than it is to offer a constructive alternative, intellectual discourse is threatened. And, when a people can no longer rely on intellectual discourse, the society is bound to fall. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

4 " Like clockwork, the powerful end up dictating, and so everyone is forced to compete for power, which only leads to an ever-escalating quest for control over others. This is the condition in which we live in early twenty-first century America. Without viable alternatives, everyone must adhere to the dictates of those in power, whether it is the Democrats or Republicans, the corporations or the unions. Given such a predicament, it is only reasonable to strive to achieve control, and so ensues a never ending struggle to obtain and hold power over everyone else. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

5 " The irony of collective ownership is that it spurs more selfishness than does private ownership. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

6 " It is not a leap to suggest that all of the distinctive advances made between 1500 and today, for better or worse, were directly or indirectly brought about by the dissolution of feudal bonds and the rise of individual autonomy. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

7 " Communal ownership means that all benefit for a short time; private ownership means that few people benefit over the course of an extended period of time. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

8 " Everyone knows that it is irrational to get involved in politics, so, as a matter of course, the rational stay away and only the irrational get involved, thus making government more and more irrational and making it more and more necessary for rational people to get involved to save it. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It

9 " Government action causes special interest reaction. "

― Eric Robert Morse , Juggernaut: Why The System Crushes The Only People Who Can Save It