likes this“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Liars
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Enemy action
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action” ? Ian Fleming
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Times up
likes thisA democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years. These nations have progressed through this sequence: From bondage to spiritual faith; From spiritual faith to great courage; From courage to liberty; From liberty to abundance; From abundance to selfishness; From selfishness to apathy; From apathy to dependence; From dependence back into bondage.
Alexander Fraser Tytler
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Trouble in the forest
Oh fool me clever one
likes thisIn an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. … Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust that if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along that the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.
Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
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Ronald Reagan – Freedom is never more than one generation…
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
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Ever wonder?
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Look ahead
“When you’re one step ahead of the crowd you’re a genius. When you’re 2 steps ahead, you’re a crackpot.” — Rabbi Shlomo Riskin
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What do we really know anyway?
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Offering help akin to offering an anchor to a drowning man
People need to wake up themselves.
“To want to improve the situation of another human being presupposes an insight into his circumstances such as not even a poet has toward a character he himself has created. How much less insight is there in the so infinitely excluded helper . . . Wanting to change or improve someone’s situation means offering him, in exchange for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will perhaps find him even more bewildered.” ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
