Paternalism Quotes

• The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

  Grover Cleveland

  Gobierno, Personas, Apoyo

  Inaugural Address, 4 March 1893

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• No cabe duda de que nuestra nación ha tenido una larga y desafortunada historia de discriminación sexual. Tradicionalmente, dicha discriminación se racionalizaba mediante una actitud de "paternalismo romántico" que, en la práctica, no colocaba a la mujer en un pedestal, sino en una jaula.

  William J. Brennan

  Sexo, Actitud, Largo

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• Libya is a war of the womb. A product of the romantic minds of women who fantasize about an Arab awakening. It is estrogen-driven paternalism on steroids.

  Ilana Mercer

  War, Mind, Awakening

  "Libya: a War of the Womb". www.wnd.com. April 08, 2011.

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  El único propósito por el que puede ejercerse legítimamente el poder sobre cualquier miembro de una comunidad civilizada, en contra de su voluntad, es evitar el daño a otros. Su propio bien, ya sea físico o moral, no es garantía suficiente.

  John Stuart Mill

  Guerra, Poder, Partido Libertario

  Sobre la libertad, cap. 1 (1859)

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• People still have a choice, but, if they find it all too confusing, or they just want someone else to make a choice for them, there's a default that works pretty well. That's this concept of libertarian paternalism. And it's handy.

  Esther Dyson

  People, Choices, Confusing

  "After Banner Decade, Peering in on the Future of Technology". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. January 3, 2010.

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• Un gobierno para el pueblo debe depender para su éxito de la inteligencia, la moralidad, la justicia y el interés del propio pueblo.

  Grover Cleveland

  Government, People, Justice

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• [M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Responsibility, Fate, Giving

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• Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

  C. S. Lewis

  Honey, Welfare, Possibility

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• The question about progress has become the question whether we can discover any way of submitting to the worldwide paternalism of a technocracy without losing all personal privacy and independence. Is there any possibility of getting the super Welfare State's honey and avoiding the sting?

  C. S. Lewis

  Independence, Progress, Honey

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• We may as well face the fact, and face it squarely, that we are too much governed. The agencies of government have multiplied, their ramifications extended, their powers enlarged, and their sphere widened, until the whole system is top-heavy. We are drifting into dangerous and insidious paternalism, submerging the self-reliance of the citizen, and weakening the responsibility and stifling the initiative of the individual. We suffer not from too little legislation but from too much. We need fewer enactments and more repeals.

  Roland H. Hartley

  Responsibility, Agency, Government

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• The politics of that year [2004] are old now, but the problem remains the same, the real culture clash of American life. It's between the essence of fundamentalism - paternalism, authority, and charity - and the messy imperatives of democracy, "the din of the vox populi" once derided by Abram Vereide. It's the difference between false unity, preached from above, and real solidarity, pledged between brothers and sisters - the kinds who are always bickering.

  Jeff Sharlet

  Brother, Real, Essence

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• There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.

  Philip French

  Father, Men, Hollywood

  "The Guardian" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2006.

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• The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

  Judith Butler

  Determination, Self, Protection

  Entrevista con Cihan Aksan, Jon Bailes, www.counterpunch.org. 11 de octubre de 2013.

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• The spiritual destiny of Hawaii has been shaped by a Calvinist theory of paternalism enacted by the descendants of the missionaries who had carried it there: a will to do good for unfortunates regardless of what the unfortunates thought about it.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Spiritual, Destiny, Hawaii

  Francine Du Plessix Gray (1973). “Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress”

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• The solution to our problems is not more paternalism, laws, decrees, and controls, but the restoration of liberty and free enterprise, the restoration of incentives, to let loose the tremendous constructive energies of 300 million Americans.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Law, Liberty, Incentives

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• A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous.

  H. L. Mencken

  Liberty, Would Be, Favors

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• I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.

  Nick Denton

  Responsibility, Europe, Social

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• La verdad es que el paternalismo materialista de la actualidad, si se permite que continúe sin control, convertirá rápidamente a América en una enorme "Main Street", donde se desalentará la aventura espiritual y se considerará que la democracia consiste en la reducción de toda la humanidad a las proporciones de los ciudadanos más estrechos y menos dotados. Dios quiera que se produzca una reacción y que los grandes principios de la libertad anglosajona sean redescubiertos antes de que sea demasiado tarde.

  John Gresham Machen

  Espiritual, Aventura, América

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• Hay muchas cosas en la sociedad estadounidense que admiro, pero desde hace tiempo opino que la ausencia de una red de seguridad eficaz en ese país significa que demasiados ciudadanos necesitados se quedan en el camino. Ese no es el camino que debe seguir Australia. Tampoco queremos las cargas del paternalismo del Estado niñera que ahora pesan sobre muchas economías de Europa.

  John Howard

  Country, Fall, Mean

  Australia Day Address, January 25, 2006.

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• We should know why paternalism, collectivism, or unnecessary federal supervision will hold our standard of living down and reduce productivity just as it has in every country where it has been tried. We should also know why the communist leaders consider socialism the highroad to communism.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Country, Communist Leaders, Down And

  Ezra Taft Benson (1974). "Dios, familia, patria: nuestras tres grandes lealtades".

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