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They just hated and feared us because our government hated and feared them.

— Cory Doctorow The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

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As someone once said, "Just because you're not interested in politics does not mean that politics won't be interested in you."

Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.

All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans.

Petard: A Tale of Just Deserts (2014)

Things are true or they aren’t, no matter how old the person saying them happens to be.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

Doesn’t matter how old the speaker is, it’s the words that matter.

The Man Who Sold The Moon (2014)

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

Edmund Spenser The Faerie Queene (1589)

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

John Adams

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