"People are dreaming if they think they..." - Quote by George Carlin
People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.
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More on Rights
“Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty.”
“I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence.”
“But the right is more precious than peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest our hearts--for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own Governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.”
More on Power
“Good and great are seldom in the same man.”
“All that was required of them (i.e. the brain-washed masses) was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because, being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice.”
“The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.”