Political quotes

Navarro

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Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war as is of every man against every man. [...] In such condition there is no place for Industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual Fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
-Thomas Hobbes.
 

Tyzuris

Primarch to your glory& the glory of him on Earth!
Interviewer to Ilkka Kanerva, a long time politician (member of parliament for several decades, a former foreign minister and current chairman of the parliamentary defense committee):

"Have you ever come across a political lie?"

Ilkka Kanerva:

"I am not going to - I can't remember any initial setting that is lie-like, if you allow it we can remake this interview question because I will deny it anyway, if it is possible to you."

Interviewer:

"But you yourself have not had to rely on using a political lie?"

Ilkka Kanerva:

"Politics loses its credibility if one has to rely on these means. One time..." * goes silent for a long time*

Interviewer:

"But have you ever had to rely on a political lie?"

Ilkka Kanerva:

"No."
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
"The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."

--Ronald Reagan, May 17, 1981
 

Simonbob

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Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”-Aldous Huxley

EDIT: Just realized DarthOne posted the one I did so here's a different one.

"Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience."

- Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World
 
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Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
"She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all."

- Pope Sixtus V on Queen Elizabeth I of England
 

King Krávoka

An infection of Your universe.
Samuel told all the words of the Lord to the people who were asking him for a king. He said, “This is what the king who will reign over you will claim as his rights: He will take your sons and make them serve with his chariots and horses, and they will run in front of his chariots. Some he will assign to be commanders of thousands and commanders of fifties, and others to plow his ground and reap his harvest, and still others to make weapons of war and equipment for his chariots. He will take your daughters to be perfumers and cooks and bakers. He will take the best of your fields and vineyards and olive groves and give them to his attendants. He will take a tenth of your grain and of your vintage and give it to his officials and attendants. Your male and female servants and the best of your cattle and donkeys he will take for his own use. He will take a tenth of your flocks, and you yourselves will become his slaves. When that day comes, you will cry out for relief from the king you have chosen, but the Lord will not answer you in that day.”
 

DarthOne

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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. ... “Free education” [is] the most absolute contradiction of facts by terminology of which the language is capable. Everything about such schools is compulsory, not free; ... . A tax- supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
― Isabel Paterson
 

Captain X

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Osaul
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure. ... “Free education” [is] the most absolute contradiction of facts by terminology of which the language is capable. Everything about such schools is compulsory, not free; ... . A tax- supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
― Isabel Paterson
Kind of ironic when you think of what happened with Natives and their children being kidnapped and sent to boarding schools to be "civilized." Yet that is essentially what is happening again, isn't it?
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
"How can anyone who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor of degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that “all men are created equal.” We now practically read it “all men are created equal, except negroes.” When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read “all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.” When it comes to this, I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

- Abraham Lincoln, 1855
 

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