The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary. -- H.L. Mencken #ClassicQuotes

...a civil war is impossible in a civilized 21st-century country, because of low commitment. No one cares enough to fight—and the people who care the most are the worst. The best, most sensible people just want to grill. --Curtis Yarvin https://asylummagazine.ca/MANUAL-FOR-MONARCHY #ClassicQuotes

It is contagion that determines the fate of a theory in social science, not its validity. --@nntaleb #ClassicQuotes

The only downside of restricting abortions is that we were on a path of libtards making themselves go extinct. @plzbepatient #ClassicQuotes

Evolution needs room but finds the earth%27s surface limited. Everywhere old and new forms of life live side by side in deadly competition; but the later improved variety multiplies and spreads at the cost of less favored types. The struggle for existence means a struggle for space. This is true of man and the lower animals. --Ellen Churchill Semple, Influences of Geographic Environment (1911) #ClassicQuotes

Fauci put faith in science back decades. When I hear %22Trust the science%22 I know an untruth is soon to follow. --David Williams (WSJ 2024-06-20) #ClassicQuotes

The CIA%27s chief purpose is not now nor has it ever been to gather intelligence, but to engineer results by clandestine means. --Ralph McGehee, CIA case officer #ClassicQuotes

People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing—refusing to participate in activities that make life bad --Tolstoy, Path of Life #ClassicQuotes