Vaclav Havel Quotes
We had all become used to the totalitarian system and accepted it as an unchangeable fact and thus helped to perpetuate it. In other words, we are all—-though naturally to differing extents-—responsible for the operation of the totalitarian machinery. None of us is just its victim. We are all also its co-creators.
The nation had been under the Communist System as part of the Soviet Bloc since the end of the Second World War.
Vaclav Have, 1936-2011l, President, Czechoslovakia President, Czech Republic, New Year's Address to the Nation, January 1, 1990
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Such as slavery in the early days of the Republic.
Malthus was of the view that population growth often eclipsed the capacity of government and private institutions to support the population. There are even today nations and subpopulations where the economic growth is reasonable but the population growth is greater so that at the end of each year, the average person is poorer and has a lower standard of living. What Malthus did not anticipate is the remarkable productivity growth rate of those institutions like American agriculture, which allo`ws many more people to thrive within a fixed geographic area.
Henry Ford, the American industrialist, was a virulent anti-Semite. He published some of the worst hate literature ever distributed in the United States. However, the German Nazis used his materials to influence young Germans who were great admirers of Ford whose autos and trucks sold also in Germany. In 1942, Ford repudiated his anti-Semitic positions () but by that time the damage had already been done with millions of German youth.
She was the first Black woman to be elected to Congress and was the first Black woman to actively campaign for the Presidency
In May of 1886 police had killed some strikers for an 8 hour work day at the McCormick Plant in Chicago. A left wing newspaper called a rally using the word “revenge.” (See {43614}.) The next day, at the rally, someone threw a dynamite bomb killing several police who in turn wounded and killed many of the protestors. 31 people were indicted for the “Haymarket Bombing,” 8 were tried, and 7 were convicted and sentenced to death including Spies. There was however, no evidence linking any of the defendants with the bombing, only evidence linking them with left wing, anarchist positions and writings.
For his seditious activities he was sentenced to penal servitude for life. He escaped and came to America where he entered politics
Later, when President McKinley was assassinated, many blamed Hearst for inflaming passions and sanctioning political assassination.
One of the reasons this is such an interesting quotation is that it is an extreme left wing statement that would be very much like a statement from an extreme rightist like a Libertarian.
Václav Havel was a Czech statesman, writer and former dissident, who served as the last President of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003. As a writer of Czech literature, he is known for his plays, essays, and memoirs.
