The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

There is nothing that is going to make people hate you more, and love you more, than telling the truth.

It's not just the abuse of power that's the problem. It's the power to abuse.

The continual manufacture of enemies is essential to the growth of the fascist state.

Fundamentally, you can never be someone else. You can only be less of who you are.

Yes I pay taxes... There are no ethics in the face of coercion, that is blaming the victim. Focus on the man with the gun, not the man in the crosshairs trying to survive.

If there is no honesty, there is no relationship. The only degree to which there is a relationship is the degree to which you are honest. Expressing your clear desires does not make you a dictator and you telling what you think, feel, and what you want or don’t want, is just called being honest. It doesn't control him at all. You’re trying to control others by withholding information by not getting involved and by not being honest. Withholding information is a form of manipulation. It is dishonest and it’s destructive to a relationship.