"Our
lack of constant awareness has also permitted us to
accept definitions of freedom that are not
necessarily consistent with the actuality of being
free. Because we have learned to confuse the word
with the reality the word seeks to describe, our
vocabulary has become riddled with distorted and
contradictory meanings smuggled into the language."
- Butler D.
Shaffer, Professor, Southwestern University
School of Law. Source: Calculated Chaos,
1985.
"The idea of
creating systems designed to threaten, coerce, and
kill, and to imbue such agencies with principled
legitimacy, and not expect them to lead to wars,
genocides, and other tyrannical practices, expresses
an innocence we can no longer afford to indulge."
- Butler D.
Shaffer, Professor, Southwestern University
School of Law.
"The
State…has had a vested interest in promoting
attitudes that would tend to make us skeptical of
our own abilities, fearful of the motives of others,
and emotionally dependent upon external authorities
for purpose and direction in our lives."
- Butler D.
Shaffer, Professor, Southwestern University
School of Law.