Robert Morrison MacIverThe healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way… ▶376Life
Robert Morrison MacIverIt is no more the function of government to impose a moral code than to impose a religious code. And for the same reason. ✨ Robert Morrison MacIver (1965). The Web of Govern… ▶369Politics
Robert Morrison MacIverWe are apt to think we know what time is because we can measure it, but no sooner do we reflect upon it than that illusion goes. So it appears that the range of the measureable is… ▶286PhilosophyReflectionSadness
Robert Morrison MacIverThe virtue of democracy is that is has placed limits on the absoluteness of power.298Politics