The Baha'i Studies Listserv It is only those who do not understand our people, who believe our national life is entirely absorbed by material motives. We make no concealment of the fact that we want wealth, but there are many other things we want much more. We want peace and honor, and that charity which is so strong an element of all civilization. The chief ideal of the American people is idealism. I cannot repeat too often that America is a nation of idealists.
>President Calvin Coolidge, January 17, 1925 >You and I are told increasingly that we have to choose between a left or a >right. There is only an up or down: up to man's age-old dream -- the ultimate >in individual freedom consistent with law and order -- or down to the ant heap >of totalitarianism. And regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian >motives, those who would trade our freedom for security have embarked on this >downward course. > >Ronald Reagan, Republican National Convention, 1964 >It has been well said that really up-to-date liberals do not care what people >do, as long as it is compulsory. > >George Will >Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, >liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human >race >divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who >have no such desire. > >Robert A Heinlein >A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he >feels for those around him. > >Alexis de Tocqueville >...it would be good . . . if [President Obama] could be a dictator for a few >years because he could do a lot of good things quickly. > >Woody Allen, interview with Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, May 2010 ________________________________ From: Adib Masumian <[email protected]> To: Baha'i Studies <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, November 29, 2010 12:54:46 PM Subject: Re: Defining the Terms Left, Rights Up, and Down The Baha'i Studies Listserv I believe that in the context of the "political diamond", up refers to progressiveness while down denotes authoritarianism. Sent from my iPhone On Nov 29, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Susan Maneck <[email protected]> wrote: > The Baha'i Studies Listserv > The terms 'right' and 'left' in political jargon (I've never heard of > up and down) are derived from the seating arrangements of the Estates > General on the eve of the French Revolution. High churchmen and > members of the nobility were seated on the right whereas the commoners > were seated on the left. The Left Wing therefore is seen as > representing the interests of the common people where the Right Wing > represents the interests of the elite classes. > > __________________________________________________ > You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] > Unsubscribe: send a blank email to >mailto:leave-542529-1580342.0cbc3d0f5e686b78fcb37c32a3ff1...@list.jccc.edu > Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] > Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st > Baha'i Studies is available through the following: > Mail - mailto:[email protected] > Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st > News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st > Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] > New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-542532-1719008.2a3842ae5b2f7d34dd5fdfc724616...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-542553-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
