New Orts #64

April 6 MMXXV

We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.
— Louis Brandeis, U.S. Supreme Court Justice 1916-39

The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism.
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President 1933-45

both quotes taken from this article

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If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956