"A man is to be held accountable for the thoughts he chooses to entertain." --Richard Alan Miller
"If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable-what then?" --George Orwell
"It's not a matter of what is true (reality) that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true (reality)." --Henry Kissinger
What does Victor have to say about that?
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. It is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
H.L. Mencken
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken
They really seem to be pushing for all out war. No reason for it except to cull the masses. Putin and his underlings keep trying to talk sense and explain that they will only take so much. If they feel existentially threatened it may very well turn nuclear.
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty." – Socrates
"Communism can be summed up in one sentence: The abolition of private property." ---Karl Marx
"Either you have the right to own property, or you are property." Wayne Hage
monty (5th April 2024)