“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.”
" The Leakers Who Exposed Gen. Flynn’s Lie Committed Serious — and Wholly Justified — Felonies https://theintercept.com/2017/02/14/the-leakers-who-exposed-gen-flynns-lie-committed-serious-and-wholly-justified-felonies/," The Intecept, 14 February 2017.
“There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.”
Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)
Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 297
Variant: A man who strives after goodness in all his acts is sure to come to ruin, since there are so many men who are not good.
Source: The Prince (1513), Ch. 15; translated by W. K. Marriot
“A person who knows all that is good and all that is true — as much as can be known — but does not resist evils, knows nothing.”
Homo qui scit omnia bona et omnia vera, quotcunque sciri possunt, et non fugit mala, nihil scit
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“A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”
Source: The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America (1961), p. 57.
“Those who suffer are not those at the top, but are the less privileged members of society.”
Source: Thinking and Destiny (1946), Ch. 5, Physical Destiny, p. 138
Context: Therefore public officials in monarchies, oligarchies and democracies, are as bad as they are. They are the representatives of the people; in them the thoughts of the people have taken form. Those who are not in office would do as the present officials do, or even worse, if they had the opportunity. Corrupt officials can hold office and sinecures only so long as the thoughts of the people are depraved.
