The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

–Private author about US Politics

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The price of clarity is the risk of insult

-Unknown

I wouldn’t trust a word that came out of his mouth even if his tongue was notarized.

-Private author about Martin Sigillito

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

-Upton Sinclair

The truth is like poetry. And everyone fucking hates your poetry

-Overheard in a Washington D.C. bar

Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality but madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

-Stephen Fry

Truth stares every person in the face, if you have the mettle to match its gaze, not be filled with dread and speak its existence devoid of hubris life changes for the better every time.

-Christopher Hudgens

Tyranny is the deliberate removal of nuance

-Albert Maysles

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing

-Elbert Hubbard not Aristotle
or Mark Staff Brandl

That’s one of the greatest powers I have, that I have 52 people who I hire and nobody knows where they’re coming from. For instance, there are two slots over at the jail. Nobody knows if Julia Childrey [Director of Department of Justice Services] put those people there or I did. It’s good fucked up. We like it fucked up. I care about my politics.

-Steve Stenger