And now, a few words from....................

................................................John Bell Condliffe:

"The human race has made progress towards the good life as long as thought and economic activity were left free to cross national boundaries and creeds."  "But now," he observed, "we face a new and more formidable superstition than the world has ever known, the myth of the nation-state, whose priests are as intolerant as those of the Inquisition.  The struggle for the rights of the individual against the all-powerful and intolerant nation-state is the most difficult and crucial issue of our generation."

"the essential condition of effective planning is that the planners must be prepared to dragoon those who do not fit into their plans."

Condiliffe understood that unchecked state power was one of the root causes of poverty, not one of the solutions.

-as excerpted from William Easterly's The Tyranny of Experts:  Economists, Dictators, And The Forgotten Rights Of The Poor