Quote of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

"But if, in despotic statecraft, the supreme and essential mystery be
to hoodwink the subjects, and to mask the fear, which keeps them down,
with the specious garb of religion, so that men may fight as bravely
for slavery as for safety, and count it not shame but highest honour
to risk their blood and their lives for the vainglory of a tyrant; yet
in a free state no more mischievous expedient could be planned or
attempted."

--Benedict de Spinoza, A Theologico-Political Treatise (1670)

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/treatise/complete.html#preface

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/s/spinoza/benedict/treatise/complete.html

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theologico-Political_Treatise/Part_1#PREFACE.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theologico-Political_Treatise/Part_1

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/#3

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza/