Donald Rumsfeld -

 Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -

Totalitarianism demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.

Christopher Hitchens -

 Islamophobia… A word created by Fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons.

G.K. Chesterton -

 The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

Plato -

 One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Ayn Rand -

When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - 

When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors -

When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you -

When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - 

 You may know that your society is doomed.

Leon Uris "The Haj" -

 This is the way it is with Arabs,” Ibrahim said.

“First comes my brother and I against our father; then my father and I and my brother against our cousins; then our cousins and we against the stranger.

That is the way it has always been with us. Me against my brother; my brother and me against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.”

George Orwell -

 The truth is that to many people, calling themselves Socialists, revolution does not mean a movement of the masses with which they hope to associate themselves; it means a set of reforms which "we," the clever ones, are going to impose on "them," the Lower Orders.