David

“But there is one thing my father-in-law told me about choices that has always stayed with me: you either pull the trigger, or you kneel on the floor.”
― Elena Gorokhova, A Train to Moscow

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
― Solzhenitsyn Aleksandr Isaevich

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“If 1 percent of the population controls most of the disposable wealth, what we call “the free market” reflects what they think is useful or important.”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory