It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others.

No matter who you vote for, the government stays in power

If you look at America, which was the experiment of the smallest conceivable government, what grows out of that is the largest government the world has ever seen.

We cannot build on peace on blood. We are still so addicted to this lie. We have this fantasy that we honor the dead by adding to their number. What we need to do is remember that these bodies bury us. This ocean of blood that we create through the fantasy that violence brings virtue drowns us, drowns our children, drowns our future, drowns the world. We have to understand that when we pour these endless young bodies into this pit of death, we follow.

Thus we can see that – at least at the level of economics – democracy is a sort of slow-motion suicide, in which you are told that it is the highest civic virtue to approve of those who want to rob you.

To see the farm is to leave it.

One of the best ways of repressing emotions is artificial certainty.