“Similarly, parents who want to teach the importance of honesty make it a practice never to lie to their children, even when it would be easier just to claim that there are no cookies left rather than to explain why they can’t have another one.”
― Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
― Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
“So these villains, who call themselves governments, well understand that their power rests primarily upon money. With money they can hire soldiers, and with soldiers extort money. And, when their authority is denied, the first use they always make of money, is to hire soldiers to kill or subdue all who refuse them more money.”
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
― No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority
“Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder. … And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
― The Untold History of the United States
― The Untold History of the United States
“When you meet a dark angel don't you ever for one minute believe they are bad because they have faced the worst demons and lived to guide you through yours. It really isn't an easy job they have been asked to do, but then neither was standing on the front line during the war in heaven.”
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“Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.”
― Agamemnon
― Agamemnon
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