“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population…
Before a revolution can take place, the population must lose faith in both the police and the courts.” ~ Robert Heinlein, “Friday”
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory there would be no civilization, no future." – Elie Wiesel #FavoriteQuotes
"Those who have long enjoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt #FavoriteQuotes
“When one by force subdues men, they do not submit to him in heart. They submit, because their strength is not adequate to resist.” ~ From the Chinese Classics [1861 - 1886], vol II, The Works of Menc