Aurelius

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- Benjamin Franklin

The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda. It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.
- Garry Kasparov

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
- Charles W. Pickering

Here in the darkness of night is the rattling he is fated to hear.

“I wear the chain I forged in life....I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.”
- Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead.
- Miyamoto Musashi

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.
Thomas Jefferson

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Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays.
- Sun Tzu

Speaking out is the honorable thing to do. Like you, I wait to see where honor lives.

When strong, avoid them. If of high morale, depress them. Seem humble to fill them with conceit. If at ease, exhaust them. If united, separate them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.
- Sun Tzu

The wise warrior avoids the battle.
- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
– Andrew Carnegie

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
- Elie Wiesel

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- George Washington

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.
- Pericles

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
- Benjamin Franklin

There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia.
- Kurt Vonnegut

It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail.
– Samuel Adams

The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
- Frederick Douglass

The Longest Da

Adams: “We have no Government armed with Power capable of contending with human Passions unbridled by morality and Religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge and licentiousness would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a Whale goes through a Net..."

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.
- Aldous Huxley

“miserando atque eligendo”

Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.
- Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- Issac Asimov

The competent usually don’t wait that long.
- Jerry Pournelle

mundus sine caesaribus
- Bluesky CEO Jay Graber

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A body of men, holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody. ~ Thomas Paine

Day 59: Thomas Paine
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Source: The Rights of Man. (1791)

Saying something obviously untrue, and making your subordinates repeat it with a straight face in their own voice, is a particularly startling display of power over them. It’s something that was endemic to totalitarianism.
- Hannah Arendt