Progressives

Progressives are usually simplistically supporting an evil philosophy.

Progressives are usually simplistically supporting an evil philosophy. Most aren't self-aware enough to recognize it.

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~ Aristotle Sabouni

❝ We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. ❞
~ Aesop ℹ️ (Disccusing Progressive Politicians)

❝ The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. ❞
~ Aristotle ℹ️

❝ The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. ❞
~ Tacitus ℹ️ Second half of 11th century

❝ A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own. ❞
~ Frank Dane ℹ️

❝ Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. ❞
~ C. S. Lewis ℹ️ The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" (1949), p. 292

❝ Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class. ❞
~ Plato ℹ️

❝ Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. ❞
~ Plato ℹ️

❝ Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. ❞
~ Plato ℹ️

❝ This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. ❞
~ Plato ℹ️ Beware those who would protect you

❝ The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ❞
~ Plato ℹ️

❝ The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits. ❞
~ Plutarch ℹ️

❝ I am a communist, but not a member of the Communist Party. Stalin is a first rate Fabian. I am one of the founders of Fabianism and as such very friendly to Russia. ❞
~ George Bernard Shaw ℹ️ 1948

❝ A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them. ❞
~ George Bernard Shaw ℹ️ Lecture to the Eugenics Education Society (March 4, 1910)

❝ You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight, and since you won't, if you’re not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to yourself. ❞
~ George Bernard Shaw ℹ️ Famous video clip defending Hitler

❝ If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. ❞
~ George Bernard Shaw ℹ️ George Bernard Shaw (1934), p. 296.

❝ A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. ❞
~ Socrates ℹ️

❝ Society is well governed when its people obey the magistrates, and the magistrates obey the law. ❞
~ Solon ℹ️

❝ The reasonable man adapts to society. The unreasonable man expects society to adapt to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men. ❞
~ George Bernard Shaw ℹ️ Better without context...

❝ We all want progress… If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. ❞
~ C.S. Lewis ℹ️ The Case for Christianity

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Progressives want progress (towards Marxism), and they're willing to sacrifice as many people as that takes.

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