
The outstanding negative quality of the totalitarian elite is that it never stops to think about the world as it really is and never compares the lies with reality.
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1951
I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.
- Donald J. Trump, in Steve Holland and Ginger Gibson, “Confident Trump Says Could ‘Shoot Somebody’ and Not Lose Voters,” Reuters, January 23, 2016
I can honestly say that my sweet serial killer is a lady’s man now. Only if I was [sic] a real woman I could bring about little future serial killers to terrorize NYC like my husband did. How [New Yorkers] would of [sic] loathed the Zodiac Children.
- Synthia China Blast, in John Marzulli, “Zodiac ‘Wife’ Curses Fate: Weird Killer Couple Separated in Prison,” Daily News, May 31, 2004
Why should I get involved when it’s quite likel…
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