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

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

" 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).

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

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

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

See also: Terminology and Transcriptions.

For extended quotes with political analysis see also: Political Saviours Are Not A Thing.

A

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, 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 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
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

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 Rothschilds, misattributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild.

N

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

T

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

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

W

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

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.

External links

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-* It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
+* 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 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: '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43gX4JOOKPw Exploitation Networks: A Global Scourge | #GrandTheftWorld 218 (Clip)]''''' (42:41) ~ Richard Grove, 2025-02-03

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