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Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalist System was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. … Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
If, however, a government refrains from regulations and allows matters to take their course, essential commodities soon attain a level of price out of the reach of all but the rich, the worthlessness of the money becomes apparent, and the fraud upon the public can be concealed no longer.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the Capitalistic System was to debauch the currency. . . Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million can diagnose.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
Government machinery has been described as a marvelous labor saving device which enables ten men to do the work of one.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.
-- John Maynard Keynes
 
A man’s greatest pleasure is to defeat his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them that which they possessed, to see those whom they cherished in tears, to ride their horses, and to hold their wives and daughters in his arms.
-- Genghis Khan
 
Words that enlighten are more precious than jewels.
-- Hazrat Inayat Khan
 
The moving finger writes; and having writ moves on. Nor all your piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all your tears wash out a word of it.
-- Omar Khayyam
 
Indeed the Idols I have loved so long,\\ have done my credit in this World much wrong;\\ have drowned my Glory in a shallow Cup,\\ and sold my Reputation for a Song.
-- Omar Khayyam
 
Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
 
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
 
We cannot expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.
-- Nikita Khrushchev (Questionable)
 
Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
-- Nikita Khrushchev
 
Comrades!  We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.
-- Nikita S. Khrushchev
 
Your children’s children will live under communism. You Americans are so gullible. No, you won’t accept Communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of Socialism until you will finally wake up and find that you already have Communism. We won’t have to fight you; We’ll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.
-- Nikita Khrushschev
 
The Rules for Liberty\\\\ 1) Don’t hurt people: Free people just want to be left alone, not hassled or harmed by someone else with an agenda or designs over their life and property.\\ 2) Don’t take people’s stuff: America’s founders fought to ensure property rights and our individual right to the fruits of our labors.\\ 3) Take responsibility: Liberty takes responsibility. Don’t sit around waiting for someone else to solve your problems.\\ 4) Work for it: For every action there is an equal reaction. Work hard and you’ll be rewarded.\\ 5) Mind your own business: Free people live and let live.\\ 6) Fight the power: Thanks to the Internet and the decentralization of knowledge, there are more opportunities than ever to take a stand against corrupt authority.
-- Matt Kibbe
 
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
 
Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion -- and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
 
To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
 
People hardly ever make use of the freedom they have, for example, freedom of thought; instead they demand freedom of speech as a compensation.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
 
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be lived-forwards. The more one ponders this, the more it comes to mean that life in the temporal existence never becomes quite intelligible, precisely because at no moment can I find complete quiet to take the backward-looking position.
-- Soren Kierkegaard
 
Why did they devise censorship? To show a world which doesn’t exist, an ideal world, or what they envisaged as the ideal world. And we wanted to depict the world as it was.
-- Krzysztof Kieslowski
 
Education is unique among consumer products -- when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.
-- Kevin Killion
 
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea or word will hurt you more. Like a bullet.
-- Jamaica Kincaid
 
To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The Negro has no room to make any substantial compromises because his store of advantages is too small. He must press unrelentingly for quality, integrated education or his whole drive for freedom will be undermined by the absence of a most vital and indispensable element -- learning.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law ... That would lead to anarchy. An individual who breaks a law that his conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
In our struggle against racial segregation in Montgomery, Alabama, I came to see at a very early stage that a synthesis of Gandhi's method of nonviolence and the Christian ethic of love is the best weapon available to Negroes for this struggle for freedom and human dignity. It may well be that the Gandhian approach will bring about a solution to the race problem in America. His spirit is a continual reminder to oppressed people that it is possible to resist evil and yet not resort to violence.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' ... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society ... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was “legal” and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was “illegal.”
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I have a dream that one day ... the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws, but conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
It is precisely because education is the road to equality and citizenship, that it has been made more elusive for Negroes than many other rights. The walling off of Negroes from equal education is part of the historical design to submerge him in second class status. Therefore, as Negroes have struggled to be free they have had to fight for the opportunity for a decent education.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges. But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence. Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, 'Free at last! free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!'
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning,\\ "My country, 'tis of thee,\\ sweet land of liberty,\\ of thee I sing.\\ Land where my fathers died,\\ land of the pilgrim's pride,\\ from every mountainside,\\let freedom ring."\\ And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.\\ So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.\\ Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.\\ Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania!\\ Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!\\ Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California!\\ But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!\\ Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee!\\ Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi.\\ From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live. Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate.... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I firmly believe that the Gandhian philosophy of nonviolent resistance is the only logical and moral approach to the solution of the race problem in the United States.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
The group consisting of mother, father and child is the main educational agency of mankind.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Communism, avowedly secularistic and materialistic, has no place for God. This I could never accept,… I strongly disagreed with Communism’s ethical relativism... there are no fixed, immutable principles; consequently, almost anything—force, violence, murder, lying—is a justifiable means to the ‘millennial’ end.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?\\ Expediency asks the question, is it politic?\\ Vanity asks the question, is it popular?\\ But conscience asks the question, is it right?\\ And there comes a time when one must take a position\\ that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,\\ but one must take it because it is right.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
We must also go out and meet the enemy before he reaches our shores. We must defeat him before he attacks us, before our cities are laid to waste.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie King
 
Once a nation parts with the control of its currency and credit, it matters not who makes the nations laws. Usury, once in control, will wreck any nation. Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most sacred responsibility, all talk of the sovereignty of parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.
-- William Lyon Mackenzie King
 
All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
-- Kingfish
 
There are two freedoms--the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
-- Charles Kingsley
 
A long and uniform sanction by law revisers and lawmakers, of a legislative assertion and exercise of power, is entitled to a great weight in construing an ambiguous or doubtful provision, but is entitled to no weight if the statute in question is in conflict with the plain meaning of the constitutional provision.
-- Kingsley v. Merril
 
The truth needs so little rehearsal.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
 
Although modern American capitalism had greatly reduced the gap through social reforms, there was still need for a better redistribution of wealth.
-- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.
-- Michael Kinsley
 
All we have of freedom--all we use or know-- This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.
-- Rudyard Kipling
 


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