"As soon as certain topics are raised, the concrete melts into the abstract...prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
George Orwell
"Politicians don’t innovate. The government doesn’t create value or wealth. It merely shifts value, mostly to cronies, and destroys and suppresses it in the process.
Soon enough, however, we will find…
Though you can ban accelerated math from public schools, you can’t ban economic realities.
The fantasy that the government is a fairy godfather, able to grant all of your wishes, is the most dangerous idea in history.
And it’s an idea doomed for collapse."
Chris Campbell
"One of the most major obstacles standing in the way of regaining freedom is division amongst the people, and those that use blame as their justification to do nothing. The left blames the right, and the right blames the left, and both are correct. Party loyal citizens are a huge problem, because there is no less evil in either, and both parties are nothing less than corrupt and despicable. Americans continue to wallow in their own incompetence and cowardice, refusing to stand up against tyranny because no one else is doing so. This is so pathetic, and that inadequate and gutless excuse is unconscionable and sickening. It seems that across this entire country, each and every argument concerning non-compliance is based on the notion that someone else has to go first. This is childish, and always ends the same way, in that none do anything of value, and absolutely nothing is accomplished. This is the mindset of collectivism, and collectivism is the scourge of mankind, and leads only to voluntary slavery. We are very close to a situation where no viable remedy will be available because it will have become too late to act. If that point is reached, defeatism will have won the day, and the people will have lost not only their liberty, but their lives as well."
Gary D. Barnett
"Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down, cut the thorns thick around you. No one’s going to storm the castle walls nor kiss awake your birth, climb down your hair, nor mount you onto the white steed. There is no one who will feed the yearning. Face it. You will have to do, do it yourself."
Gloria E. Anzaldúa
"Gaslighting is a powerful device for public subjugation because it makes good people who love freedom think they are evil people that need to be controlled. It is also a way for a corrupt system to maintain dominance of the general population because it normalizes psychopathic behavior and suppresses moral conscience by convincing people that morality is 'relative' or a 'matter of perspective,' and that abusive and destructive behavior is 'necessary' in order to achieve a better world. If you can discombobulate a population into questioning right from wrong, then you can prevent them from ever rebelling against you.
These are tried and true methods of psychopaths. If you ever wonder why abused spouses or family members stay with and even defend their abusers, it is because psychopaths use gaslighting to disarm their victims. If you are crazy, and if your position on morality is in doubt, then maybe you aren't being abused at all. Maybe, you are being saved and protected? And, if you lash out and defend yourself against the abuser, now you are truly a horrible human being; you are now a danger to society. You are now a terrorist."
Brandon Smith
"I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."
Henry David Thoreau
"The government has decided not to allow the climate to change anymore.
Sure, the climate has never stopped changing from Day One, but our great leaders have decided enough is enough, and they mean to put a stop to it. Al Gore couldn’t stop it. Hollywood couldn’t stop it. PBS specials didn’t stop it. Even unleashing child fund-raiser Greta Thunberg didn’t stop it from changing.
But the military is going to kick the crap out of climate change."
George Gilder
"What is not freedom is when the state compels you to serve, associate with or accommodate those you don't want to, regardless of the reason. That's called slavery and tyranny. Enslaved people have no rights."
Bob Livingston
"To presume that liberty is inevitable is to absolve oneself from fighting oppression. As soon as people drop the reins on government, politicians will leash the people. Rather than hoping for an 'end of history' triumph, people must battle forever to defend their rights. As long as individuals continue to defy oppressors, the seeds of resistance will produce bountiful harvests of freedom in better times."
James Bovard
"Until people learn to disregard the state’s siren song of beneficence and protection, they will continue to suffer and die as victims of the state’s wars, foreign and domestic. People yearn for security, and they look to the state to provide it, but they are calling upon a wolf to guard the sheep.
The state cannot refrain from crime because it is an inherently criminal enterprise, living by robbery (which it relabels taxation) and retaining its turf by mass murder (which it relabels war). Constantly singing the siren song, it seduces the people by giving back to them a portion of what it has previously extorted from them and by ceaselessly claiming to protect them from all manner of threats to their lives, liberties, property, and even their self-esteem. If it protects them at all, however, it does so only as a shepherd protects his captive flock: not because he recognizes and respects the natural rights of his sheep, but only to keep them unmolested in his sole possession and control until he finds it expedient to shear or slaughter them."
Robert Higgs
"SARS-CoV-2 is the first virus that's political. When you create an imaginary [or at least endlessly mutable and fear mongering] virus, it can be anything you want it to be and affect anything you want it to affect…
If you're the Mayor of Austin, Denver, or LA, the Governor of CA, IL, or NY, [Speaker] Pelosi, or any other acceptable political representative, avoiding the lockdown, travel bans, and mask-wearing is not a threat to public health safety.
If you're Tom Brady and walk into a stadium without a mask before you play a football game without a mask, you're a threat to world health…
Everyone knows this is ludicrous, but as long as people keep acquiescing to the nonsense, the restrictions and loss of freedom will keep getting ratcheted up.
That's right; you now need TWO masks.
At some point, people will have to cease cooperating with their own enslavement. This is where this is headed with Universal Basic Income, health passports, mandatory vaccines, ID2020, smart cities, and the whole Agenda 21 [from the Davos “Great Reset”]. Until people say, 'Enough'."
Mike Kendall
"Authoritarians need lackeys and minions. Caesar and Napoleon did not stand alone. Hitler and Stalin had loyal soldiers, too. Modern authoritarians of the Great CO2 Hoax have armies of willing servants who desire riches and security. We live in a Golden Age and wealth is the most sought after life goal. The lackeys of today’s authoritarians do it for the money and eagerly sell their integrity. They want a piece of the scam action. Others are brainwashed and have succumbed to the climate propaganda — which is deliberately fashioned for simpletons. The power-mad have the upper hand Freedom and clear thinking are rare commodities today."
William Briggs
"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand, arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside…Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them..."
Thomas Paine
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