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Everything is good as it comes from the hands of the Maker of the world, but degenerates once it gets into the hands of man ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. ↗

— H.G. Wells

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In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem, government IS the problem. It isn't so much that liberals are ignorant, it's just that they know so much that isn't so. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

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Sovereign is he who decides on the exception. ↗

— Carl Schmitt

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Politically, the goal of today’s dominant trend is statism. Philosophically, the goal is the obliteration of reason; psychologically, it is the erosion of ambition. ↗

— Ayn Rand

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I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to? ↗

— Cory Doctorow

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the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

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All resistance is a rupture with what is. And every rupture begins, for those engaged in it, through a rupture with oneself. ↗

— Alain Badiou

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I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

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Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. ↗

— John Adams

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