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All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Edmund Burke

D

Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
~ Plato, unverified

G

Guilt loves company more than misery.
~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite

I

I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
~ Emiliano Zapata

I used to imagine that in a tyranny people were united against the oppressors, but now I realize that tyranny turns people against one another, making some glad or even ecstatic to witness the excessive punishment of those they've been taught to hate.
~ Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa professor
Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine (2:12:33) ~ Clyde Do Something, 2024-09-27

“ I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. ”
~ Frederick Douglass

I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.
~ Frederick Douglass, lecture, The Anti-Slavery Movement (1855)

If I can't dance, I won't be part of your revolution.
~ anonymous, inspired by and often misattributed to Emma Goldmann

If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it.
~ disputed and misattributed to Emma Goldman, Mark Twain, George Carlin

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
~ disputed George Orwell (not found earlier than 1982)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Disputed

“ It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. ”

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
~ motto of the Christopher Society

It is dangerous to be right in matters about which the established authorities are wrong.
It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong.
Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.
~ Voltaire (pen name of François-Marie Arouet, 1694–1778)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in places where the government is wrong.
~ Tim Poole on TimCast paraphrasing a common saying after an analysis of Tommy Robinson
Video source from 23:32 to 23:38 in: Exploitation Networks: A Global Scourge | #GrandTheftWorld 218 (Clip) (42:41) ~ Richard Grove, 2025-02-03

It lays the predicate in the foundation for the development of a weather satellite that will permit man to determine the world's cloud layer and ultimately to control the weather and he who controls the weather will control the world.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. President, 1963-1969
Video source from 0:01 to 0:21 in: Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, November 2, 2024, # 482 ( Dane Wigington ) (55:49) ~ Dane Wigington, 2021-11-02

L

“ Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. ”
~ Pablo Picasso

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
~ Pablo Picasso

“ Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws, ” was said to be a maxim of the House of Rothschilds.
Above: Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744–1812).

Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws.
~ Said to be a maxim of the House of Rothschild, misattributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

N

Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite

P

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."

Translation variation:

How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech."

~ Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Part I, Swenson Translation p. 19 (1843)

S

Seizing upon anything but class, U.S. leftists today have developed an array of identity groups centering around ethnic, gender, cultural, and life-style issues. These groups treat their respective grievances as something apart from class struggle, and have almost nothing to say about the increasingly harsh politico-economic class injustices perpetrated against us all.
~ Michael Parenti
Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, San Francisco: City Lights Books, p.151, 1997.
WikiSpooks: Identity politics

T

The measure of a man is what he does with power.
~ Plato, unverified

“ The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. ”
~ H.L. Menken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.
~ H.L. Menken, 1910s^[Wikiquote]

“ There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it. ”
~ Thomas Sowell

There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
~ Thomas Sowell

“ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ”
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.

W

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
~ P. J. O'Rourke

“ When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. ”
~ Frédéric Bastiat

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.
~ Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845–1848)

“ Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech. ”
~ Benjamin Franklin

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Y

“ You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing. ”

You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.

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