"Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep."

Politics, Tyranny, Power, Oppression, Freedom

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"Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep."

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"I believe the term is 'eminent domain.'Ah, yes. That means 'theft by the government."

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"Democracy is good, but it is not good for an uneducated dogmatic society. Often, that society does not know how to choose wisely."

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"If you have to say or do something controversial, aim so that people will hate that they love it and not love that they hate it."

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"Majority wins, but majority is not necessarily right and sometimes majority is awfully wrong."

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"A country that publicly threatens to completely destroy another nation should not be surprised when a preemptive surprise attack occurs from that nation and their allies."

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"The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them."

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"The mass communications that could enable our politics for good have instead turned it into a bland conglomeration of stinted opinion cloaked in the occasional media frenzy of blame or denial."

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"There's great peace in surrendering to principles."

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"Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive."

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"Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future."

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"(To the haters) You are not extinguishing the bright lights of mankind, you're simply burying yourself in an unmarked grave."

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"For the most part, people strenuously resist any redefinition of morality, because it shakes them to the very core of their being to think that in pursuing virtue they may have been feeding vice, or in fighting vice they may have in fact been fighting virtue."

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"Dr. Peter Boghossian's A Manual for Creating Atheists is a precise, passionate, compassionate and brilliantly reasoned work that will illuminate any and all minds capable of openness and curiosity. This is not a bedtime story to help you fall asleep, but a wakeup call that has the best chance of bringing your rational mind back to life.(Review of Dr. Peter Boghossian's book, 'A Manual for Creating Atheists')"

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"I will feel no guilt on shutting my door to those who didn't listen."

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"Tyranny is the wolf cast by the shadows of sheep."

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"If there's more that you can do, then do it. If there's not more that you can do, then be content with what you're doing. But if there is despair, the despair can only be that you can do more. Because when you're doing as much as you can do, you will not feel despair. Because despair is the gap between what you could be doing and what you are doing."

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