To rise to the top in a cronyist system is a disgrace—To rise to the top in a free system is a virtue.
Few things are more debilitating than a small but adequate stipend.
Power tends to corrupt—Absolute power tends to corrupt absolutely. —Lord Acton
The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is that good people do nothing.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. —Voltaire
When cops are above the law, then cops are outside the law, and when cops are outside the law, then cops are outlaws.
The world is The Result Of Our Individual Choices. (TROOIC)
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. —Geothe
If you don’t believe in Freedom Of Speech for everyone, then you don’t believe in Freedom Of Speech at all.
To rule the world is to lose oneself, and to lose oneself is to lose.