Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then?
-- Henry David Thoreau
The "government of all the people", if we have to have government, can at best be only the government of the majority.
-- Errico Malatesta
I have never been more afraid of elections result as I am today.
I feel like going back to my home country will get harder and more dangerous for #LGBTQ people.
I'm probably not going back in the foreseeable future. I know that my own family would report me either for my sexual preference or political affiliation.
This is a strange feeling. I feel lucky to have grown up in a brief and rare moment of democracy and relative peace in Brazil. And I am sad to see how everything is turning out.
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business.
-- Octave Mirbeau
It's simple, really, first you rebrand the word freedom to describe a specific kind of unsustainable lifestyle.
Then you make it clear that this lifestyle is unsustainable and, therefore, freedom is unsustainable.
Now the people will claim for a dictator to fight for their democracy!
It is guaranteed to work from roman times to the information age! 👍