"The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technology"
— E. O. Wilson
"The dream of absolute, universal equality is amazing, terrifying, and inhuman. And the moment it captures people's minds, the result is mountains of corpses and rivers of blood."
-Vladimir Bukovsky
"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones".
-St. Teresa of Ávila
"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
-George Orwell in 1984
"After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world".
-President Calvin Coolidge
“We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.”
– John F. Kennedy
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
- President Ronald Reagan
“At its heart, wokeness is divisive, exclusionary, and hateful. It basically gives mean people a shield to be mean and cruel, armored in false virtue.” - Elon Musk
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it."
- H.L. Mencken
“Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the