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Politicians anywhere on the planet are worse than hookers. Hookers just sell their bodies; politicians sell their souls. Hockey_Maniac7

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. Otto von Bismarck

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer

Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love. Erich Fromm

Taking somebody’s money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it’s taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal mania, unless you work for the Army; then it’s National Defense. Spying on your neighbors is invasion of privacy, unless you work for the FBI; then it’s National Security. Running a whorehouse makes you a pimp and poisoning people makes you a murderer, unless you work for the CIA; then it’s counterintelligence. Robert Anton Wilson

The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level. To breed and train a standardized citizenry. To put down dissent and originality. H.L. Mencken

The State calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime. Max Stirner

It’s estimated 2,500 children are kidnapped and murdered in this country every year. Americans, for the most part, are oblivious to what’s really going on behind the scenes.

I retired from the FBI March 1979. At that time, I was in charge of the FBI Los Angeles Division. I had more than 700 personnel under my command. And in that particular instance, they were taking children out of foster homes, orphanages, Boys Town. These are two-, three-, and four-year-old children before they entered kindergarten. In addition, the children claimed that they were flown into the mountains where they were involved with adults in robes, black robes, chanting, candles. They talked about the brown babies who were cut up, actually sacrificed, and flying them to Washington, D.C., for sex orgies with prominent people, including congressmen, senators, and certain people in the White House.

And the reason the congressmen and the senators vote for these stupid bills is because many of them have been set up and framed through sex and drugs. Ted Gunderson

The cause in the most of cases, that induces the negro to run away from service, is as much a disease of the mind as any other species of mental alienation, and much more curable, as a general rule. With the advantages of proper medical advice, strictly followed, this troublesome practice that many negroes have of running away, can be almost entirely prevented, although the slaves be located on the borders of a free state, within a stone’s throw of the abolitionists. Samuel Cartwright

You can’t really know where you are going until you know where you have been. Maya Angelou

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add “within the limits of the law,” because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual. Thomas Jefferson

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life, you doubt, as far as possible, all things. René Descartes

If you get tired, learn to rest, not to quit. Banksy

It’s better to be alone than to wish you were. Unknown

Be aware that there are other proposals for “electronic money” which are not nearly so protective of individuals’ privacy. Chaum’s proposals are intended to preserve the privacy attributes of cash, so the term “digital cash” is appropriate. But other electronic replacements for cash not only lack its privacy, but would actually facilitate computer monitoring by putting more detailed information into databases, and by discouraging the use of cash. If you see a proposal for an electronic money system, check to see whether it has the ability to preserve the privacy of financial transactions the way paper money does today. If not, realize that the proposal is designed to harm, not help, individual privacy. Hal Finney (Protecting Privacy with Electronic Cash, 1993)

[The high-minded man] must care for truth more than for what men will think of him, and speak and act openly. He will not hesitate to say what he thinks. […] honour is what high-minded men are concerned with; for it is honour that great men claim and deserve. Aristotle

One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again. [The more you study the past, the further you can see the future.] Thomas Sowell

That which you most need will be found where you least want to look. Carl Jung (paraphrase)

If working hard made you rich, donkeys would be covered in gold. French proverb

Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. Friedrich W. Nietzsche