“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.” — Aristotle
“We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”–Nineteen Eighty-Four–happening now
“Fascism should rightly be called corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power.” — Benito Mussolini
“…the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken (1922)
“When the people believe that an orangutan with orange hair, surrounded by vipers, living in a swamp will save them, the end of the world is assured” –js
“When the people believe that an orangutan with orange hair, surrounded by vipers, living in a swamp will save them, the end of the world is assured” –js …………… 🙂
Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called ‘the greatest evil in the world.’ The friction which results from ignorance … can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent. Nikola Tesla
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking. Julius Caesar
“In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.” – Sun Tzu
“You have to believe in yourself.” – Sun Tzu
Love the Sun Tzu quotes. And yes, we do indeed have that opportunity. Death to Defeatism!
Eat the rich – Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
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