 Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?  Complete Works - Page 199by Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1883Full view - About this book
 | George Kateb - 2002 - 278 pages
...monarchical idea, was also relatively right, (p. 563) These words culminate in the stern reminder that "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well" (p. 563). Corruption, however, does not prevent Emerson from being magnanimous to political parties... | |
 | John P. Diggins - 2007 - 536 pages
...the supremacy of the state will be remembered for the sufferings their delusions cause their people. Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey...signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?44 Both the president and the poet convinced themselves that to get rid of the state was to get... | |
 | Jason A. Scorza - 2008 - 290 pages
...is why Emerson once joked, "What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed by the word politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?"4 In contrast, reflective political humor aims at the audience itself, which must be provoked... | |
 | William R. Drennan - 2007 - 244 pages
...Wrightian hearth (Wisconsin Historical Society, "A Peculiar Establishment" Life at Taliesin, 1911-1914 Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. Ralph Waldo Emerson Every house is a missionary. I don't build a house without predicting the end of... | |
 | Kenneth S. Sacks - 2008 - 228 pages
...qualified to judge of monarchy, which, to our fathers living in the monarchical idea, was also relatively right. But our institutions, though in coincidence...corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. 119 What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politic, which... | |
 | 1920 - 628 pages
...Freeman is always reminding one of Emerson. For example, this seems to be precisely your point of view: Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey...'cunning" — intimating that the State is a trick? Or this: Senators and Presidents have climbed so high with pain enough, not because they think the... | |
 | 116 pages
...personal importance" (J. VI, 495). Then should its laws be sacred and implicitly followed? By no means! "Every actual state is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. . . . Any laws but those which men make for themselves are laughable" (III, 199, 205). And not only... | |
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