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Nya citat 2005-03-04
Fascismen är borgerlig: den har överallt kommit till makten så gott som uteslutande med stöd av de borgerligt, antisocialistiskt inriktade folkgrupperna, den har i sina grunddrag bevarat den borgerliga produktionsordningen, den privata äganderätten till produktionsmedlen, den i princip fria konkurrensen, och den avvisar tanken på ekonomisk utjämning.
Herbert Tingsten, i "Nazismens och fascismens idéer" från 1965
Det allvarliga med ny demokrati var den främlingsfientliga politiken de ville driva. Dessvärre tycker jag att det inslaget, som jag ogillar och många med mig, finns i folkpartiet.
Bengt Westerberg, tidigare partiledare (fp), om hur fp utvecklats
A despotism, which may tame the savage, will, in so far as it is a despotism, only confirm the slaves in their incapacities. Yet a government under their own control would be entirely unmanageable by them. Their improvement cannot come from themselves, but must be superinduced from without.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
The case most requiring consideration in reference to institutions is the not very uncommon one in which a small but leading portion of the population, from difference of race, more civilised origin, or other peculiarities of circumstance, are markedly superior in civilisation and general character to the remainder. Under those conditions, government by the representatives of the mass would stand a chance of depriving them of much of the benefit they might derive from the greater civilisation of the superior ranks; while government by the representatives of those ranks would probably rivet the degradation of the multitude, and leave them no hope of decent treatment except by ridding themselves of one of the most valuable elements of future advancement. The best prospect of improvement for a people thus composed lies in the existence of a constitutionally unlimited, or at least a practically preponderant, authority in the chief ruler of the dominant class.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
The exportation of laborers and capital from old to new countries, from a place where their productive power is less, to a place where it is greater, increases by so much the aggregate produce of the labor and capital of the world. ... There needs be no hesitation in affirming that Colonization, in the present state of the world, is the best affair of business, in which the capital of an old and wealthy country can engage.
John Stuart Mill: "On Colonies and Colonization", 1848
The ruling country ought to be able to do for its subjects all that could be done by a succession of absolute monarchs, guaranteed by irresistible force against the precariousness of tenure attendant on barbarous despotisms, and qualified by their genius to anticipate all that experience has taught to the more advanced nation. Such is the ideal rule of a free people over a barbarous or semi-barbarous one.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
A slave, properly so called, is a being who has not learnt to help himself. He is, no doubt, one step in advance of a savage. He has not the first lesson of political society still to acquire. He has learnt to obey.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
I ceased to consider representative democracy as an absolute principle, and regarded it as a question of time, place, and circumstance
John Stuart Mill, "Autobiography", 1872
Again, uncivilised races, and the bravest and most energetic still more than the rest, are averse to continuous labour of an unexciting kind. ... Hence even personal slavery, by giving a commencement to industrial life, and enforcing it as the exclusive occupation of the most numerous portion of the community, may accelerate the transition to a better freedom than that of fighting and rapine.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
From the general weaknesses of the people or of the state of civilisation, the One and his counsellors, or the Few, are not likely to be habitually exempt; except in the case of their being foreigners, belonging to a superior people or a more advanced state of society. Then, indeed, the rulers may be, to almost any extent, superior in civilisation to those over whom they rule; and subjection to a foreign government of this description, notwithstanding its inevitable evils, is of ten of the greatest advantage to a people
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
The mode in which such tribes are usually brought to submit to the primary conditions of civilised society is through the necessities of warfare, and the despotic authority indispensable to military command.
John Stuart Mill: "Representative Government", 1861
Jag är säker på att det vi gjort inte kommer att vara populärt om 20 år när de som går i pension ser vad vi gjort.
Göran Persson om det nya pensionssystemet
På EU-nivå lyssnar de olika aktörerna mer på arbetsgivarna än i Sverige.
Sverker Rudeberg, Svenskt Näringsliv, om varför de helst förhandar med facken på europeisk nivå
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