“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth.Ronald Reagan
“And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.Boris Pasternak
“State = political society + civil society, in other words hegemony protected by the armor of coercion.Antonio Gramsci
“One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. J. R. R. Tolkien
“My adversaries… applied the one means that wins the easiest victory over reason: terror and force.Adolf Hitler