"The State doesn't just want you to..." - Quote by H L Mencken
The State doesn't just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.
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“College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the trustees played. There would be a great increase in broken arms, legs, and necks, and simultaneously an appreciable diminution in the loss to humanity.”
“Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.”
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
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“This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.”
“The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task.”
“Let me give you my vision: A man's right to work as he will, to spend what he earns, to own property, to have the state as servant and not as master. These are the British inheritance. They are the essence of a free country, and on that freedom all of our other freedoms depend.”
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“The heart is forever making the head its fool.”
“If voting changed anything, it would be illegal.”
“If you want to shrink something, you must first allow it to expand. If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish. If you want to take something, you must first allow it to be given. This is called the subtler perception of the way things are. The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast. Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.”