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“When one with honeyed words but evil mind
Persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
― Euripides, Orestes

tags: administration, deceit, deception, elections, evil, false-promises, falsehood, government, power, seduction, tyranny

597 likes

“If I were to vote, I would intentionally vote for the goofiest candidate. It is my theory that when the people can outwit the leader, the more respected their voices will be.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: candidate, election, freedom, funny, funny-but-true, humor, leadership, masses, politics, respect, theory, tyranny, voice, voting

34 likes

“The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.”
― James Madison

tags: patriot-act

397 likes

“I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.

(John 11:25-26)”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

tags: belief, charles-dickens, ever-after, everlasting-life, faith, paradise, resurrection, sydney-carton, tale-of-two-cities

142 likes

“In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.”
― Eugene Victor Debs

tags: authoritarianism, deception, exploitation, fundamentalism, nationalism, oppression, patriotism, religion, totalitarianism, tyranny

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