George Downs

“When a constitution and its laws are no longer followed by a government, it falls on the governed to revolt in order to restore them.”
― Jeffrey Fry

“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“It was in 1982 that Milton Friedman wrote the highly influential passage that best summarizes the shock doctrine. " Only a crisis-actual or percieved-produces real change. When the crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes politically inevitable.”
― Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

“Oh, I thought you were trying to build a canal. If it's jobs you want, then you should give these workers spoons, not shovels. [Reply to the government bureaucrat of one Asian country who told him that, reason why there were workers with shovels instead of modern tractors and earth movers at a worksite of a new canal, was that: "You don't understand. This is a jobs program."]”
― Milton Friedman