If voting could change the system, it would be illegal.
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. Henry Charles Bukowski
Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual, crime.
Orwell is starting to look like an optimist!
People — pardon me, journalists and politicians— have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable criminals, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.
Government only exists because people think it does. If enough of us ignore government — don't obey its laws, don't patronize its services, don't vote for its members, don't fill out its forms...and above all, don't pay the taxes that feed it...it will eventually go away. Government is only a concept. Concepts change.
Illiteracy, lack of historic knowledge, and sheeplike belief that people exist to serve the state aren't the result of a system that has failed. They are the result of a system that has succeeded beyond its founders' wildest hopes. The system cannot be fixed. It already works.
Whoever lays a hand on me to govern me is a usurper and a tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.
Is life so dear, or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me Liberty or give me death!
A regulation can be for a fool to obey and a wise man to break.
America was neither founded, nor freed, by the well behaved.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
If the law supposes that," said Mr. Bumble..., "the law is a ass — an idiot. Charles Dickens
I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Mahatma Gandhi
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