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“Some people stay broken. Some pick up the pieces and put them back together with all the sharp edges showing.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“Some wanted the freedom to be anyone they wanted, some of us wanted the freedom to be left alone.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.”
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
― On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“Not making a choice is a choice. Neutrality is a concept, not a fact. No one actually gets to live their lives that way.”
― The Butterfly Garden
― The Butterfly Garden
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.”
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
― On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing
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