“The easiest way to steal a man’s wallet is to tell him you’re going to steal his watch.”
Leigh Bardugoh
“They support freedom for themselves and slavery for everyone else, and they use the freedom of the market to disguise this. Economic coercion is just a different form of force.”
Robert Peate
“As long as there are crazed or crafty leaders to play on old fears, a mob will turn cruel.”
Leigh Brackett
“Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all the unifying agents. Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without a belief in a devil. And there is perhaps no surer way of infecting ourselves with virulent hatred toward a person than by doing him a grave injustice.”
Eric Hoffer
“‘What is truth’ asked Pilate? And then turned and washed his hands of it.’ Our modern procurators and prefects of plutocracy and empire don’t even understand the purpose or substance of the question, except as a means of distracting us from yet another one of their lies. We have taken a natural paradise, and a beacon of freedom to the world, and are turning it into a suburb of Hell— for the unquenchable greed of a few.”
Jesse
