Category: meme

Maybe your political beliefs have gone too far… when you start to think of citizens as children who must be mothered and managed.

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“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-​driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”

—Pierre-​Joseph Proudhon

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“It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.”

—Walter Bagehot

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“The First Rule of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.”

—Alexander Cockburn

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The day the U.S. military draft ended:

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