The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
H. L. MENCKEN
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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Evangelical Christianity, as everyone knows, is founded upon hate, as the Christianity of Christ was founded upon love.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.
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The only good bureaucrat is one with a pistol at his head. Put it in his hand and it’s good-bye to the Bill of Rights.
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You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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When fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects … what they thus lost they have never got back.
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It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
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The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
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