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“When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'.”
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“All the governments on our planet are failing because they’re run by people who don’t have the best intentions in mind for the population, not because they’re capitalistic, socialistic, etc. At some point people will realize that these labels stand for nothing, and it will be like waking up from a dream. A bad dream where label-maker devices are running after people like monsters.”
― The Beasts of Success
― The Beasts of Success
“Most gun control arguments miss the point. If all control boils fundamentally to force, how can one resist aggression without equal force? How can a truly “free” state exist if the individual citizen is enslaved to the forceful will of individual or organized aggressors? It cannot.”
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“The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is very apt to spread discontent among those who are.”
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
― A Mencken Chrestomathy
“Pick a leader who will keep jobs in your country by offering companies incentives to hire only within their borders, not one who allows corporations to outsource jobs for cheaper labor when there is a national employment crisis. Choose a leader who will invest in building bridges, not walls. Books, not weapons. Morality, not corruption. Intellectualism and wisdom, not ignorance. Stability, not fear and terror. Peace, not chaos. Love, not hate. Convergence, not segregation. Tolerance, not discrimination. Fairness, not hypocrisy. Substance, not superficiality. Character, not immaturity. Transparency, not secrecy. Justice, not lawlessness. Environmental improvement and preservation, not destruction. Truth, not lies.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“At times there's something so precise and mathematically chilling about nationalism.
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”
― The Cost of Living
Build a dam to take away water AWAY from 40 million people. Build a dam to pretend to BRING water to 40 million people. Who are these gods that govern us? Is there no limit to their powers?”
― The Cost of Living
“A system is corrupt when it is strictly profit-driven, not driven to serve the best interests of its people.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Pick a leader who will not only bail out banks and airlines, but also families from losing their homes -- or jobs due to their companies moving to other countries. Pick a leader who will fund schools, not limit spending on education and allow libraries to close. Pick a leader who chooses diplomacy over war. An honest broker in foreign relations. A leader with integrity, one who says what they mean, keeps their word and does not lie to their people. Pick a leader who is strong and confident, yet humble. Intelligent, but not sly. A leader who encourages diversity, not racism. One who understands the needs of the farmer, the teacher, the doctor, and the environmentalist -- not only the banker, the oil tycoon, the weapons developer, or the insurance and pharmaceutical lobbyist.”
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
― Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“Instead of politicians, let the monkeys govern the countries; at least they will steal only the bananas!”
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“Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for YOUR sake that we drink that milk and eat those apples. Do you know what would happen if we pigs failed in our duty? Jones would come back! Yes, Jones would come back! Surely, comrades," cried Squealer almost pleadingly”
― Animal Farm
― Animal Farm
“What is it about the government and its agents and employees that they can lie to us with impunity, but we risk being sent to jail if we lie to them?”
― Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
― Lies the Government Told You: Myth, Power, and Deception in American History
“It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as [inherently] exceptional, whatever the motivation. There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy. Their policies differ, too. We are all different, but when we ask for the Lord’s blessings, we must not forget that God created us equal.”
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“In a society where the majority choose charisma over character, democracy does more harm than good to the actual progress of that society”
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“While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.”
― The City & the City
― The City & the City
“The history of patents includes a wealth of attempts to reward friends of the government and restrict or control dangerous technologies.”
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
― The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind
“The Government cannot be concerned any longer with outmoded penelogical theories. Cram criminals together and see what happens, You get concentrated criminality, crime in the midst of punishment.”
― A Clockwork Orange
― A Clockwork Orange
“I regularly used to tell people that the fastest way to move up in the government is to just screw up, and the bigger the screwup, the bigger the promotion. Every person implicated in your mistakes has an interest in covering up what they did, so they will promote you. That means the people at the very top are usually the most immoral, unethical people in the entire agency.”
― Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
― Government Gangsters: The Deep State, the Truth, and the Battle for Our Democracy
“The Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 -- buried in an 11,000-page budget bill and never debated -- was passed the night before Congress recessed for Christmas in December 2000. It exempted credit-default swaps from federal oversight and from state gambling laws.”
― Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
― Confidence Game: How Hedge Fund Manager Bill Ackman Called Wall Street's Bluff
“When government institutions hold more lunatics than mental institutions, know that, there's something clinically wrong with this world.”
― Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
― Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Governments don't exist to do what's right, governments exist to do whatever increases their chances to stay in power for another term - not this government or that government, but every government.”
― Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
― Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn
“Courts are, unquestionably, the seats of politeness and good breeding; were they not so, they would be the seats of slaughter and desolation. Those who now smile upon and embrace, would affront and stab, each other, if manners did not interpose..... Lord Chesterfield”
― The 48 Laws of Power
― The 48 Laws of Power
“When the entire nation becomes a reservation, perhaps then we’ll understand the price of ignoring history’s lessons.”
― Mother Earth vs Corporate Greed: The Betrayal of America's Traditional Farmers and Ranchers from Corrupt Government Programs and Corporate Greed
― Mother Earth vs Corporate Greed: The Betrayal of America's Traditional Farmers and Ranchers from Corrupt Government Programs and Corporate Greed
“The greatest mistake a people can make is to hesitate even for a single second to overthrow a greedy government that cares only about its own welfare and not the welfare of the people, through non-violent civil disobedience methods!”
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“The greatest rebellion is not against society, but against the self you were told to become. To unbecome is to begin again, to find the raw, unshaped core of who you are and who you might be." -Jop Helm”
― COVERT CONTROL: Unveiling the Dark Art of Social Manipulation
― COVERT CONTROL: Unveiling the Dark Art of Social Manipulation
“You are not lost. You are buried—under expectations, under routines, under the weight of a life you did not choose. Dig yourself out. Or better yet, set it all ablaze and rise from the ashes." - Jop Helm”
― COVERT CONTROL: Unveiling the Dark Art of Social Manipulation
― COVERT CONTROL: Unveiling the Dark Art of Social Manipulation
“150 years later, Constantinople suffers an even worse fate. The emperor Justinian, faced with similar violence, the Nika revolt of 532, was encouraged by his wife, Theodora, to send in troops. Between 30,000 and 50,000 citizens are believed to have been massacred. It was the arbitrary exercise of this absolute power that was most unsettling. The fact that Justinian supposed himself to be a quintessentially Christian monarch made no difference. It was, after all, fully accepted that God might act punitively, and there were dozens of Old Testament texts to back the point. So why should his representative on earth be different? In any case, as the contemporary historian proposes, the king did not see it as murder, as the victims did not share his beliefs.”
― The Closing Of The Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
― The Closing Of The Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
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