“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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“I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.”
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“Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
“The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them.”
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