Some things never change
A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
~~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
posted by Aussiegirl @ 11:46 PM
1 Comments:
You have hit on the very nub of the matter - the very thing which makes a mockery of the "theory" of communism and Marxism -- that imperfect man is perfectable by OTHER imperfect men, if only those men (somehow mysteriously free of the blinders which afflict the proletariat) are given the power of life and death over the "unenlightened". Time and again we have seen the vast human disasters and holocausts perpetrated by such "good intentions". Yes, the road to hell is truly paved with good intentions. May God protect us from such "noble ideals".
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