Great Minds Think Alike…and Fools…who knows what they think?

 

Thoughts from others:

  • War As Politics By Other Means.” -Clausewitz
  • “The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas.” -H.G. Wells
  • War is peace… Ignorance is strength.” -George Orwell, 
  • “All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.” -George Orwell
  • “Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.” -George Orwell
  • “The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth.” -George Orwell
  • “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”  -Aldous Huxley
  • “Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.”  –Aldous Huxley. 
  • “Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness.” Ray Bradbury
  • “When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent” -Isaac Asimov
  • “The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.” -Isaac Asimov
  • “Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.” -Isaac Azimov
  • “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov
  • “It’s not what happened but how it is told.” -Philip K Dick
  • “This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.’ -Philip K Dick
  • ‘You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.” -Robert Heinlein
  • “A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.” -Robert Heimlein.
  • “In my first ten months, I ended eight wars.” -djt.  creator of ‘Board of Peace’

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