The State in the 21st Century

"Thus the final degradation of the Baconian philosophy is that knowledge becomes power in the service of appetite. The state, ceasing to express man's inner qualifications, turns into a vast bureaucracy designed to promote economic activity."

"If one dares to visualize the millennium of the of the social democrats, he is forced to picture a 'healthy-minded,' naturally good man, provided for by a paternalistic state and seeking to save himself from extinction by boredom through dabbling in some art."

Richard Weaver