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 Sheep spend their entire lives afraid of the wolf only to be eaten by their shepherd.

Aldous Huxley -

 The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

Edward Conze (1934) -

 Fascism is the organised attempt to introduce socialist planning with the consent of big business.

Richard Feynman -

 I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.

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 Liberty means not having to ask for permission.

Mark Twain -

 It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.

 In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.

Wikipedia -

 In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance occurs when a person holds contradictory beliefs, ideas, or values, and is typically experienced as psychological stress when they participate in an action that goes against one or more of them.

Wikipedia -

 A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease.

Richard Hanania -

Democracy does not reflect the will of the citizenry, it reflects the will of an activist class, which is not representative of the general population.

Glenn Reynolds -

 When you remember that “woke” is a synonym for “crazy, stupid, and vicious” it all makes sense.

Marcus Aurelius -

 The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in ranks of the insane.

Herbert Marcuse -

 Movements from the left must be extended tolerance, even when they are violent, while movements from the right must not be tolerated, including suppressing them by violence.

Mark Steyn -

 Yesterday's mental illness is today's social policy.

 Diversity is where societies go to die.

 

Aristotle -

 Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

Kevin Baker -

 If Right-wing extremists were as dangerous as they think, there wouldn't BE any Left-wing extremists.

Thomas Sowell -

 Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.

Edward Bernays -

No serious sociologist any longer believes that the voice of the people expresses any divine or specially wise and lofty idea. The voice of the people expresses the mind of the people, and that mind is made up for it by the group leaders in whom it believes and by those persons who understand the manipulation of public opinion. It is composed of inherited prejudices and symbols and clichés and verbal formulas supplied to them by the leaders.

Glenn Reynolds -

...in the end the police aren’t there to protect the public from criminals, they’re there to protect criminals from the public. Communities dealt with crime long before police were invented, usually in rather harsh and low-due-process ways. The bargain was, let the police handle it instead. No police, no bargain.

Freeman Dyson -

A model is such a fascinating toy that you fall in love with your creation... Every model has to be compared to the real world and, if you can't do that, then don't believe the model.

Robert Heinlein -

What are the facts? Again and again and again – what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history” – what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts are your single clue. Get the facts!