Evil Is Nourished And Grows By Concealment

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious.
But it cannot survive treason from within.
An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC )

The world  is increasingly designed to depress us.
Happiness isn’t very good for the economy.
If we were happy with what we had, why would we need more?
How do you sell an anti-ageing moisturiser?
You make someone worry about ageing.
How do you get people to vote for a political party?
You make them worry about immigration.
How do you get them to buy insurance?
By making them worry about everything.
How do you get them to have plastic surgery?
By highlighting their physical flaws.
How do you get them to watch a TV show?
By making them worry about missing out.
How do you get them to buy a new smartphone?
By making them feel like they are being left behind.
To be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act.
To be happy with your own non-upgraded existence.
To be comfortable with our messy, human selves, would not be good for business.
( Matt Haig )

Religion is not just one, there are many.
Spirituality is one.
Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and say.
( Rose Winfold )

I’m not a conspiracy theorist.
I’m a “So many things don’t add up and it’s bloody obvious” theorist.
( Len Firswood )

Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves.
Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves.
The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.
( David Ben-Gurion, 1886 – 1973, first prime minister of the State of Israel )

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.
We must do everything to ensure they never do return.
The old will die and the young will forget,
( David Ben-Gurion )

Since I invoke Torah so often, let me state that I don’t personally believe in the God it postulates.
I am not religious, nor were the majority of the early builders of Israel believers.
Yet their passion for this land stemmed from the Book of Books.
The Bible is the single most important book in my life.
( David Ben-Gurion )

The difference between money and time?
You always know how much money you have, but you never know how much time you have.
( Wilfred Soon )

The greatest enemy will hide in the last place you would ever look.
( Julius Caesar, 100 BC – 44 BC )

The main reason for the problems, the wars, the misery, the suffering, and the needless deaths today, is because we are ruled by those obsessed with power, the greedy, the corrupt, the selfish, and the evil.
Not by the smartest or the kindest or the honest or the good people who really care.
( Rose Winfold )

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
( Seneca the Younger, c. 4 BC – 65 AD )

We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest.
The youth of today are absolutely right in recognising this nonsense of earning a living.
We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist.
So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors.
The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
( Richard Buckminster Fuller Jr., 1895 – 1983 )

Evil is nourished and grows by concealment.
( Virgil, 70 BC – 19 BC )

The common people are but ill judges of a man’s merits.
They are slaves to fame, and their eyes are dazzled with the pomp of titles and large retinue.
No wonder, then, that they bestow their honours on those who least deserve them.
( Horace, 65 BC – 8 BC )

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.
( David Bowie, 1947 – 2016 )

Many of you wished me dead.
Many of you perhaps still do.
But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge.
I demand only this…that you join with me in building a new Rome, a Rome that offers justice, peace and land to all its citizens, not just the privileged few.
Support me in this task, and old divisions will be forgotten.
Oppose me, and Rome will not forgive you a second time.
Senators, the war is over.
( Julius Caesar, 100 BC – 44 BC )

It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
( Thomas Sowell )

The greatest hindrance to living is expectancy, which depends upon tomorrow and wastes today.
( Seneca the Younger, c. 4 BC – 65 AD )

Activists.
A well-informed group of good people with basic empathy who are compassionate, committed to dismantling injustices, and making the world a better place for both people and animals.
( Fred O. Wilson )

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.
( Virgil, 70 BC – 19 BC )

If I knew that it would be possible to save all the children in Germany by bringing them over to England and only half of them by transporting them to Eretz Israel, then I opt for the second alternative.
( David Ben-Gurion, 1886 – 1973, first prime minister of the State of Israel )

A Jew is anyone who says he is.
( David Ben-Gurion )

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth.
When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
( Thomas Sowell )

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century:
Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others.
Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected.
Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it.
Refusing to set aside trivial preferences.
Neglecting development and refinement of the mind.
Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106 BC – 43 BC )

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.
For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

For there is but one essential justice which cements society, and one law which establishes this justice.
This law is right reason, which is the true rule of all commandments and prohibitions.
Whoever neglects this law, whether written or unwritten, is necessarily unjust and wicked.
( Marcus Tullius Cicero )

The domination of the Jew in the State seems so well assured that he can now not only designate himself as a Jew again, but ruthlessly admit his ultimate racial and political reasoning.
One part of the race quite openly admits to being an alien people, though not without lying again, even here.
For when Zionism tries to job off on the rest of the world the story that racial self-determination of the Jew would be satisfied by the creation of a State in Palestine, the Jews are once more craftily pulling the wool over the eyes of the stupid goyim.
They never dream of building a Jewish State in Palestine in order to inhabit it.
They merely want an organisation headquarters with its own sovereignty, beyond reach of interference from other states, a refuge of convicted rogues and a college for knaves to come.
It is a sign not only of their growing confidence but of their feeling of security that while some of them are still truthlessly masking themselves as Germans, Frenchmen or Englishmen, others document themselves as the Jewish race.
( Adolf Hitler, 1889 – 1945, a passage from Mein Kampf 1925 ) ..  wikisource.org

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people.
( Barbara Bush, 1925 – 2018 )

When we are told that mining coal is bad, but mining copper, lithium, cobalt and nickel is okay, we start to think we are being conned.
( Doris Fenlow )

A truth can walk naked, but a lie always needs to be dressed.
( Khalil Gibran, 1883 – 1931 )

Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi, 1942 – 2011.
Gaddafi is watching from up there and smiling.
He was one of the few to dare to go against the dollar and was assassinated by the U.S. for it.
Gaddafi died in pursuit of justice, self-determination of the oppressed people of the global south.
Putin now is taking over the fight and the global south is behind him in full support because this time it is possible, this time it will happen.
Imperialism is about to end, a new era will begin, dangerous and exciting times we are living in.
Just pray the Collective West will not lose its mind and keep a minimum of rationality for this transition towards multipolarity.
( Angelo Giuliano, June 2023 )