Greatest Evils of Communism
1. Millions dead
2. Widespread use of the term “bougie”
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?
Greatest Evils of Communism
1. Millions dead
2. Widespread use of the term “bougie”
Recycling laws exist to remind you that your rulers, though they have nothing to charge you with, can force you to sort through your garbage.
You think your political opponents are unqualified to vote, they think the same of you, and you’re both right.
There are men who believe in a government of laws, not men; but they are not the men who govern.
In any sufficiently advanced civilization, the Top will use the Bottom to bludgeon the Middle.
The trouble starts with people thinking they should have a vote themselves, and from there it’s a short step to thinking everybody should.
One must ask of Inclusiveness, as of all political ideologies, what and whom it excludes.
Sound economic policy facilitates the parting of fools and their money.
Literacy makes possible the state, and universal literacy the omnipotent state.
Democracy encourages would-be rulers to act like the people in an abject effort to gain the power to act for them.