Political Ideals
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Economic injustice is perhaps the most obvious evil of our present system.
The war has come as a challenge to all who desire a better world.
The tyranny of the holders of power is a source of needless suffering and misfortune to very large sections of mankind; but power remains in few hands, and tends, if anything, to grow more concentrated.
To give freedom to the strong to oppress the weak is not the way to secure the greatest possible amount of freedom in the world.
Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good.
War is recognized as an evil by an immense majority in every civilized country; but this recognition does not prevent war.
Good political institutions would weaken the impulse toward force and domination in two ways: first, by increasing the opportunities for the creative impulses, and by shaping education so as to strengthen these impulses; secondly, by diminishing the outlets for the possessive instincts.
Most of us abstain, for instance, from theft, not because it is illegal, but because we feel no desire to steal.
The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
Under our existing system, although what is recognized as robbery is forbidden, there are nevertheless many ways of becoming rich without contributing anything to the wealth of the community.
Possessiveness—the passion to have and to hold—is the ultimate source of war, and the foundation of all the ills from which the political world is suffering.
Democracy is a device—the best so far invented—for diminishing as much as possible the interference of governments with liberty.
The results of anarchy between states should suffice to persuade us that anarchism has no solution to offer for the evils of the world.
Liberty demands self-government, but not the right to interfere with others. The greatest degree of liberty is not secured by anarchy.
But our administration is still purely bureaucratic, and our economic organizations are monarchical or oligarchic.