The first of a series:
This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1922, found in the introductory remarks to Our Enemy The State by Albert Jay Nock
And yet today, people still can’t figure out the Big Society.
We have far to go. I hope we travel quickly.
Tags: big society, Quotations
