We all speak truth to power that we are sure will pay us no mind.
Jan 272014
Ruling
In ’37 Stalin made a hash
Of party loyalists and army brass.
Decimation: One in ten are shot.
What’s the word when one in ten are not?
Jan 232014
Politicians do not place their personal interests before the national interest: they regard them as indispensable to the national interest.
Jan 162014
No government suppresses thought and speech as effectively as your friends and neighbors do.
Jan 152014
The revolutionary is nine parts hatred and envy of the oppressor, and one part sympathy and love for the oppressed.
Jan 132014
Revolutions spare nothing but the machinery of the state at which they are ostensibly directed.
Dec 252013
Constant surveillance is the vocation of the police and the avocation of everyone else.
Dec 092013
Yesterday the great enemy of democracy was distinction of birth; today it is distinction of wealth; tomorrow it will be distinction.
Dec 042013
Uncivilized colonists enslave the aborigines; civilized colonists exterminate them.
Nov 282013
To be powerful relieves one of the obligation to be interesting.
Nov 062013
Policy begets policy.