"Terrorism is in good part an effective government propaganda; it serves to deflect attention from governmental abuse toward a mostly imagined, highly dangerous outside enemy."

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Mark Poster

#Government Quotes #Abuse Quotes #Enemy Quotes

“Editing is the same as quarreling with writers â€” same thing exactly.”
“Thinking like a designer can transform the way you develop products services, processes and even strategy”
“VIRTUES, n.pl. Certain abstentions.”
“It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.”
“If you're gonna use me as a stepping stone, you'd better step hard!”
“When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.”

Source : Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.206, Library of Alexandria
“A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place.”
“The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.”

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