Tao Te Ching
Arthur Desmond
1859 – 1929 CE
Arthur Desmond (c. 1859 – 1929), aka Arthur Uing, Ragnar Redbeard, Richard Thurland, Desmond Dilg, Gavin Gowrie
Bank-bashing heroic reformer, “The Poet of Revolution,” author, and politician; Desmond started a political organization dedicated to “emancipation from poverty, competitive commercialism, industrial wage slavery, tyrannical authority, and mental bondage." Like Machiavelli and his satirical book The Prince, Desmond was slandered by the rich and powerful plutocrats of his time as an immoral, satanic figure, advocating Social Darwinism, racism, and fascism. His book, Might Is Right, however, was called by fellow labor movement collaborators, “one of the greatest books ever written." He promoted land reform, the nationalization of large estates and banks, single taxation and called bank directors "scoundrels", large estate owners "blood-sucking leeches" and the local press as "hirelings of monopoly.”
Eras
Western
Post-Romantic Age (1850 – 2018 CE)Gilded Age (1860 – 1900 CE)
Great Depression (1929 – 1941 CE)
Victorian (1837 – 1901 CE)
Roaring Twenties (1920 – 1929 CE)
Chinese
Qing dynasty (1644 – 1912 CE)Sources
Quotes by Arthur Desmond (15 quotes)
“Class, creed and nationality are words which should find no place in the vocabulary of the Australians, because these words are synonymous with everything that is hostile to peace and happiness in the world.”
from Might Is Right
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“The living forces of evil are to be found in the living ideals of to-day”
from Might Is Right
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“Government is founded on property, property is founded on conquest, and conquest is founded on Power.”
from Might Is Right
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“Equality before the Law, is thus a contradiction in terms for Law itself is an incarnation of Inequality. It is true only in the subjective sense, that all who OBEY the Law are equally the servants of those who make it or caused it to be made.”
from Might Is Right
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“Popular lies have ever been the most potent enemies of personal liberty.”
from Might Is Right
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“Sagacious spirits doubt all things, and hold fast only to that which is demonstrably true.”
from Might Is Right
Chapters:
64. Ordinary Mind
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“He that is slow to believe anything and everything is of great understanding, for belief in one false principle, is the beginning of all unwisdom.”
from Might Is Right
Chapters:
2. The Wordless Teachings
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“Human rights and wrongs are not determined by Justice, but by Might. Disguise it as you may, the naked sword is still king-maker and king-breaker, as of yore. All other theories are lies and — lures.
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from Might Is Right
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“All ethics, politics and philosophies are pure assumptions, built upon assumptions. They rest on no sure basis. They are but shadowy castles-in-the-air erected by day-dreamers, or by rogues, upon nursery fables”
from Might Is Right
Chapters:
11. Appreciating Emptiness
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“He who saith ‘thou shalt’ to me is my mortal foe.”
from Might Is Right
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“Just as the spider weaves his silky web, to lure flies into the larder of his banqueting hall in order that he may at his leisure, pick the flesh off their bones, so deceitful Ideals are cunningly woven by dexterous, political spiders, to capture and exploit Swarms of human flies.”
from Might Is Right
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“What is your ‘civilization and progress‘ if its only outcome is hysteria and down going? What is ‘government and law‘ if their ripened harvests are men without sap? What are ‘religions and literatures‘ if their grandest productions are hordes of faithful slaves?”
from Might Is Right
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“What is ‘education and enlightenment‘ if their dead-sea-fruit is a caitiff race, with rottenness in its bones?”
from Might Is Right
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