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"I saw the BEST minds of my generation destroyed by MADNESS..." - from the poem "HOWL" by Allen Ginsberg
"All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the state..." "...More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other..." - Albert Camus, The Rebel Part 3, State Terrorism and Rational Terror.
"We train young men to drop fire on people, but their commanders won't allow them to write "fuck" on their airplanes because it's obscene!" ~ Colonel Kurtz "Apocalypse Now"
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe." - Frederick Douglass
I'm not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.- Niccolo Machiavelli
"I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men."
Robert Green Ingersoll
"A liberal is a socialist who worship safety. A conservative is a socialist who worships order."- (Its all about Perceived Risk) Unknown
"A man's admiration for absolute government is proportionate to the contempt he feels for those around him."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence." - Jim Morrison
Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat.- Mark Twain
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. Not by accident does Genesis make the father of knowledge a serpent -- slimy, sneaking and abominable. Since the earliest days the church, as an organization, has thrown itself violently against every effort to liberate the body and mind of man. It has been, at all times and everywhere, the habitual and incorrigible defender of bad governments, bad laws, bad social theories, bad institutions. It was, for centuries, an apologist for slavery, as it was the apologist for the divine right of kings.
- H L Mencken, Treatise on the Gods
"All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit." - Thomas Paine
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels
In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned.
When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.
- Mark Twain
The men that American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest the most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
-- H L Mencken
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free - Goethe
"Until the philosophy which hold one race
superior and another inferior is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned...Everywhere is war, me say war..." Bob Marley
"The twentieth century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: the growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy." - Alex Carey
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot
"I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system." - Noam Chomsky
"The first enemy for both political extremes is the center. Both ultra-leftists and ultra-rightists have the same primary objective: to polarize the country, to implement the breakdown of the governing system, and ultimately to create a situation of chaos where armed conflict will be between the right and the left, the center, having been discredited by its failure to prevent it..." Scott Anderson, from the book "Inside the League"
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"The 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, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change it. And even if he is not romantic personally he is apt to spread discontent among those who are." - H.L. Mencken
