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| + | [[File: Abraham Lincoln - The problem with internet quotes - brown.jpg |thumb |right |250px |" ''[[The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy.]]'' "<BR>''~ [[Abraham Lincoln]], [[1864]]'']] | ||
| + | [[File: Abraham Lincoln - Don't believe everything you read on the Internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it.jpg |thumb |right |250px |" ''[[Don't believe everything you read on the Internet just because there's a picture with a quote next to it.]]'' "<BR>''~ [[Abraham Lincoln]]'']] | ||
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: ''See also: '''[[Terminology]]'''.'' | : ''See also: '''[[Terminology]]'''.'' | ||
: ''For extended quotes with political analysis see: '''[[Political Saviours Are Not A Thing]]''', '''[[Transcriptions]]''', and '''[[Wage peace]]'''. | : ''For extended quotes with political analysis see: '''[[Political Saviours Are Not A Thing]]''', '''[[Transcriptions]]''', and '''[[Wage peace]]'''. | ||
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* Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. | * Dictatorship naturally arises out of a democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. | ||
*: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato Plato], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Plato#%22Dictatorship_naturally_arises_out_of_a_democracy,_and_the_most_aggravated_form_of_tyranny_and_slavery_out_of_the_most_extreme_liberty.%22 unverified] | *: ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Plato Plato], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Plato#%22Dictatorship_naturally_arises_out_of_a_democracy,_and_the_most_aggravated_form_of_tyranny_and_slavery_out_of_the_most_extreme_liberty.%22 unverified] | ||
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| + | [[File: Envy was once considered to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, 'Social Justice'.jpg |thumb |right |200px |''[[Envy]] was once considered to be one of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]] before it became one of the most admired [[virtues]] under its new name, '''[[Social Justice]]'''.''</br>~ [[Thomas Sowell]] ]] | ||
| + | * [[Envy]] was once considered to be one of the [[Seven Deadly Sins]] before it became one of the most admired [[virtues]] under its new name, '''[[Social Justice]]'''. | ||
| + | *: ~ [[Thomas Sowell]] | ||
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* 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. | * 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 | *: ~ [[Janice Fiamengo]], University of Ottawa professor | ||
| − | *:: ''[https://www.youtube.com/live/6hpuu6eaRys?si=m8GCOXV5fXbEXTLf&t=3306 Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine] (2:12:33) ~ [[Clyde Do Something]], 2024-09-27 | + | *:: '''''[https://www.youtube.com/live/6hpuu6eaRys?si=m8GCOXV5fXbEXTLf&t=3306 Liberty in Peril - Canada is the Canary in the Coal Mine]''''' (2:12:33) ~ [[Clyde Do Something]], 2024-09-27 |
| − | [[File: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. ~ Frederick Douglass.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong. ~ Frederick Douglass.jpg |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#1850s I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.]'' ”</br> | |“ ''[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass#1850s I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong.]'' ”</br> | ||
~ Frederick Douglass]] | ~ Frederick Douglass]] | ||
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* If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it. | * If voting made any difference, they wouldn't let us do it. | ||
| − | *: ~ disputed and misattributed to [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Disputed Emma Goldman], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed Mark Twain], George Carlin | + | *: ~ disputed and misattributed to [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Emma_Goldman#Disputed Emma Goldman], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed Mark Twain], [[George Carlin]] |
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. | * In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. | ||
| − | *: ~ | + | *: ~ [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell#Disputed disputed George Orwell] (not found earlier than 1982) |
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| − | [[File: It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.png |thumb |right | | + | [[File: It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.png |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.'' ”]] | |“ ''It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.'' ”]] | ||
* It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. | * It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. | ||
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* It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men 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.'' | * ''Il est dangereux d'avoir raison dans des choses où des hommes accrédités ont tort.'' | ||
| − | *: ~ | + | *: ~ [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire Voltaire] (pen name of [[François-Marie Arouet]], 1694–1778) |
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:* It is dangerous to be right in places where the government is wrong. | :* 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]] | :*: ~ [[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 | + | :*:: 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 |
* 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. | * 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. | ||
*: ~ [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson], former U.S. President, 1963-1969 | *: ~ [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Lyndon_Johnson Lyndon B. Johnson], former U.S. President, 1963-1969 | ||
| − | *:: Video source from 0:01 to 0:21 in: '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrn3giIVCdY Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, November 2, 2024, # 482 ( Dane Wigington )]''''' (55:49) ~ Dane Wigington, 2021-11-02 | + | *:: Video source from 0:01 to 0:21 in: '''''[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrn3giIVCdY Geoengineering Watch Global Alert News, November 2, 2024, # 482 ( Dane Wigington )]''''' (55:49) ~ [[Dane Wigington]], 2021-11-02 |
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| − | [[File: Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.jpg |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.'' ”</br> | |“ ''Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.'' ”</br> | ||
~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Pablo Picasso] ]] | ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso Pablo Picasso] ]] | ||
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| − | [[File: Mayer Amschel Rothschild.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: Mayer Amschel Rothschild.jpg |thumb |right |200px |“ ''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]].</br>Above: [[Mayer Amschel Rothschild]] (1744–1812).]] |
* Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws. | * Let us control the money of a nation, and we care not who makes its laws. | ||
*: ~ Said to be a maxim of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Rothschild the House of Rothschild], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money#Misattributed misattributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild]. | *: ~ Said to be a maxim of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Rothschild the House of Rothschild], [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Money#Misattributed misattributed to Mayer Amschel Rothschild]. | ||
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* 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. | * 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. | ||
| − | *: ~ [ | + | *: ~ [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Parenti#Blackshirts_and_Reds:_Rational_Fascism_and_the_Overthrow_of_Communism_(1997) Michael Parenti] |
*:: ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'', [[San Francisco]]: [[City Lights Books]], p.151, 1997. | *:: ''Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism'', [[San Francisco]]: [[City Lights Books]], p.151, 1997. | ||
*::: WikiSpooks: [https://WikiSpooks.com/wiki/Identity_politics Identity politics] | *::: WikiSpooks: [https://WikiSpooks.com/wiki/Identity_politics Identity politics] | ||
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~ H.L. Menken]] | ~ 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. | * 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. | ||
| − | *: ~ | + | *: ~ [https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken#1910s H.L. Menken] |
| − | [[File: Thomas Sowell cropped.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: Thomas Sowell cropped.jpg |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are '''"going to"''' do something and those who actually '''do it'''.'' ”</br> | |“ ''There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are '''"going to"''' do something and those who actually '''do it'''.'' ”</br> | ||
~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Thomas Sowell] ]] | ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Sowell Thomas Sowell] ]] | ||
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|“ ''[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#1750s Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.]'' ”</br> | |“ ''[https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin#1750s Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.]'' ”</br> | ||
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.]] | ~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.]] | ||
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| + | [[File: Thomas Sowell's Social Justice Defined.png |thumb |right |250px |''What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in takes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? '''[[Social Justice]].'''''</br>~ [[Thomas Sowell]] ]] | ||
| + | * What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly? | ||
| + | :: '''[[Theft]]'''. | ||
| + | : What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force? | ||
| + | :: '''[[Robbery]]'''. | ||
| + | : What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in takes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? | ||
| + | :: '''[[Social Justice]]'''. | ||
| + | ::: ~ [[Thomas Sowell]] | ||
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* When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. | * When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. | ||
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| − | [[File: Truthstream Media - Do You Know Your First Amendment Rights.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: Truthstream Media - Do You Know Your First Amendment Rights.jpg |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'' ”</br> | |“ ''Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.'' ”</br> | ||
~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin Benjamin Franklin] ]] | ~ [https://en.Wikiquote.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin Benjamin Franklin] ]] | ||
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| − | [[File: You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.jpg |thumb |right | | + | [[File: You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.jpg |thumb |right |200px |
|“ ''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.'' ”]] | ||
* 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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* [http://LeverMind.net LeverMind.net] | * [http://LeverMind.net LeverMind.net] | ||
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Latest revision as of 01:51, 30 March 2025
- See also: Terminology.
- For extended quotes with political analysis see: Political Saviours Are Not A Thing, Transcriptions, and Wage peace.
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| Coming soon. A ▪ B ▪ C ▪ D ▪ E ▪ F ▪ G ▪ H ▪ I |
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
E
Envy was once considered to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, Social Justice.
~ Thomas Sowell
~ Thomas Sowell
- Envy was once considered to be one of the Seven Deadly Sins before it became one of the most admired virtues under its new name, Social Justice.
G
- Guilt loves company more than misery.
- ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite
I
- I'd rather die on my feet, than live on my knees.
- 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
- ~ Janice Fiamengo, University of Ottawa professor
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- ~ Tim Poole on TimCast paraphrasing a common saying after an analysis of Tommy Robinson
- It is dangerous to be right in places where the government is wrong.
- 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
- ~ Lyndon B. Johnson, former U.S. President, 1963-1969
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- Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.
“ 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).
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.
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- Necessity is the mother of invention, poverty is the mother of necessity.
- ~ Raymond Potvin, Windsorite
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- 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)
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- 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
- Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism, San Francisco: City Lights Books, p.151, 1997.
- ~ Michael Parenti
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- 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.
“ There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it. ”
~ Thomas Sowell
~ Thomas Sowell
- There are two kinds of people in this world - those who are "going to" do something and those who actually do it.
“ Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. ”
~ Benjamin Franklin, November 11, 1755.
~ 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.
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What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in takes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him? Social Justice.
~ Thomas Sowell
~ Thomas Sowell
- What do you call it when someone steals someone else's money secretly?
- What do you call it when someone takes someone else's money openly by force?
- What do you call it when a politician takes someone else's money in takes and gives it to someone who is more likely to vote for him?
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- 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
~ Benjamin Franklin
- Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
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- You aren't doing it wrong, if no one knows what you are doing.
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