If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
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Politics, n: Poly "many" + tics "blood-sucking parasites"
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Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to read more
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses read more
Away with the cant of "Measures not men!"--the idle supposition
that it is the harness and not the horses that draw the chariot
along. No Sir, if the comparison must be made, if the
distinction must be taken, men are everything, measures
comparatively nothing.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of read more
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
The Duty of an Opposition is to oppose.
Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin,
the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump read more
Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin,
the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which
partisanship was installed in the Commission.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
