Words are important. And when there is a critical mass of them, they change the nature of the universe.
What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter.
There is a saying, “You can’t fool an honest man,” which is much quoted by people who make a profitable living by fooling honest men.
The freedom to succeed goes hand in hand with the freedom to fail.
Steal five dollars and you were a petty thief. Steal thousands of dollars and you were either a government or a hero.
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
No sane mortal is truly free, because true freedom is so terrible that only the mad or the divine can face it with open eyes.
Money is not a thing, it is not even a process. It is a kind of shared dream. We dream that a small disc of common metal is worth the price of a substantial meal. Once you wake up from that dream, you can swim in a sea of money.
Man’s not dead while his name is still spoken?
If you kept changing the way people see the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.
I commend my soul to any god that can find it.
Freedom may be mankind’s natural state, but so is sitting in a tree eating your dinner while it is still wriggling.