Erik Heter
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After 1989, we did not relax our vigilance. On the contrary, people began to monitor pronouns and search for “microaggressions” to punish.
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
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“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing. Unless it is politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing, the right people will not do the right thing either, or it they try, they will shortly be out of office.”
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“When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.”
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