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Every society in human history that has ever given itself over to government by intellectuals has lived to regret it. Ours will be no different.

— Curtis Yarvin

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It is much easier to delude others if at the same time you delude yourself.

No one ever achieved power by promising to enslave his followers.

The New York Times could print nothing but lies for a year, and it would still be the most powerful institution in the world.

The most powerful people in the West today, measured strictly by their ability to influence the real world, are journalists and professors.

Reaction is the reconstruction or restoration of the civilized mind, through political power, from any form of progressive or revolutionary degradation.

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

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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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