Quotes

"Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention, have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property, and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths."

— James Madison in "Father of the Constitution" from: The Federalist Papers

“If the actions taken with respect to meeting a stated goal seem disproportionate and nonsensical, perhaps consider that they may be essential and coherent with respect to meeting one unstated.”

— Jeff Wells

“Days like this, when it's increasingly difficult to distinguish psyops from genuine doom, is known on the street as the time ‘shit's about to get real.’”

— Jeff Wells

“He who learns must suffer And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget Falls drop by drop upon the heart… And in our own despair, against our will, Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.”

– Agamemnon; Aeschylus

“ most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...”

— H.L. Mencken

“The most erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public education is not to spread

“This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.”

― Orson Scott Card, Speaker for the Dead