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Laloofah<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@randahl" class="u-url mention">@<span>randahl</span></a></span> <br />“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, <br />diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, <br />then the powerful can do as they please, <br />and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”<br />~ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoamChomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoamChomsky</span></a> </p><p>“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”<br />~Justice <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LouisBrandeis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LouisBrandeis</span></a></p><p>“The price of apathy towards public affairs <br />is to be ruled by evil men.”<br />~ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plato</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/apathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>apathy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/voting" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>voting</span></a></p>
Laloofah<p>“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, <br />diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, <br />then the powerful can do as they please, <br />and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”<br />~ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/NoamChomsky" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NoamChomsky</span></a> </p><p>“The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.”<br />~Justice <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/LouisBrandeis" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LouisBrandeis</span></a></p><p>“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”<br />~ <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Plato" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Plato</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democracy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/authoritarianism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>authoritarianism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FightApathy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FightApathy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DefeatProject2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DefeatProject2025</span></a></p>
Roman ALAN<p>Useless quote for 5 Oct:</p><p>"We must make our choice.</p><p>We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both."</p><p>~ Louis Brandeis, as quoted by Edward Keating in 1941 (1)</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/UselessQuote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UselessQuote</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/LouisBrandeis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LouisBrandeis</span></a></p><p>(1) For a background explanation, see:<br>"Democracy v. Concentrated Wealth: In Search of a Louis D. Brandeis Quote" by Peter Scott Campbell, Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, 2013<br>Here: <a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2434225" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf</span><span class="invisible">m?abstract_id=2434225</span></a><br>or here: <a href="http://www.greenbag.org/v16n3/v16n3_articles_campbell.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">greenbag.org/v16n3/v16n3_artic</span><span class="invisible">les_campbell.pdf</span></a></p>