Smile for Today ~ Thought for Today

"We don't elect pacifists.  We admire the killer instinct in leaders.  It's genetic.  It is inevitable that people in high positions like Harper reach out for a bloody stick or sword.  The people who run the world today are psychopaths.  Everybody can see it, so why are we so obedient?  All they care about is the economy because that means money.  A virus is sweeping through the human race.  At the top, all over the world, we are rotting away as a species from the top down.  The leaders have gone beyond greed to the sheer amassing of power.  There is no effective morality, just power."

~ Farley Mowat (1960 - 2014) Canadian author, environmentalist ~ In an interview with author of PARTY OF ONE, STEPHEN HARPER AND CANADA'S RADICAL MAKEOVER, Michael Harris, Viking, 2014.

"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
~ Abraham Lincoln

"As I get older...I become more convinced that good government is not a substitute for self-government."
~ Dwight Morrow (1873 - 1931) Businessman, father of Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people, whatever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves, in their separate and individual capacities."
~ Abraham Lincoln