The majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship --Alexander Tytler #ClassicQuotes

The easiest way to inject a propaganda idea into most people's minds, is to let it go in through the medium of an entertainment picture when they do not realize that they are being propagandized. Elmer Davis, Director of the Office of War Information #ClassicQuotes

The last act of any Government is to loot the Treasury. --George Washington #ClassicQuotes

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's 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 "Trust the science" I know an untruth is soon to follow. --David Williams (WSJ 2024-06-20) #ClassicQuotes