Monsters that live under children's beds have power only because of the child's ignorance. Thus the nonexistent becomes efficacious.
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People sell their soul in such small quantities - a seemingly trivial compromise here, a rationalization of a minor evil there - that they don't realize what they're doing until it is too late.
Never, ever, trust a man who is willing to die in glory but is unable to live with pride.
Sometimes, the lessons that are learned by accident, or in the process of failing, are the most lasting.
If you stay true to your principles, you have confidence, conviction, purpose, values - in other words, you have a future.
If we don__ make our own future, it will be made for us.
Public-sector employment _ another way to be shielded from reality.
The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a nonexistent devil that you do not know.
Of everything we must first ask: is it real or not?
Appearance is irrelevant, perception is irrelevant; what matters is that reality exists and that we are capable of understanding it. This is the absolute key to survival. A man who lives by his mind, lives; a man who ignores his mind, thereby ignoring reality, dies. Simple.
The fire and passion in a militiaman__ eyes has not been extinguished; the brightness and eagerness remain. I want to be around such men, for they are the only ones worth knowing.
You've been taught to "render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's". Unlearn that lesson. Free men would not permit Caesar to exist.
There is a word we should be using towards government officials whenever they deny our individual rights: "No". Being just a word, it isn't a strong weapon. But it is the intellectual wellspring from which all other weapons flow.
You're a free man, act like it.
It is much easier to make an Active Patriot into a friend rather than the other way around.
If you can see something, and it is wrong, you can fight it with a reasonable chance of success. Fighting the nonexistent is worse than pointless: Don Quixote tilted at windmills, but at least windmills are real.
For any reputable person or organization to be successful, that person's or organization's actions must be based on solid information, not conspiracy theories, not hearsay, not rumors, and certainly not fear mongering.
Any success against a false target is a false victory.