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1 " It’s better to be an enemy of the state than a friend: a friend can only be sold, but an enemy can only be bought. "
― Steve Shahbazian , Green and Pleasant Land
2 " When your enemy has you by the throat, you put your enmity on hold. "
3 " A strong friend can be more dangerous than a weak enemy. "
4 " When you’re swimming with the sharks, you can’t afford to be burdened with scruples. "
5 " Rome might not have been built in a day, but it didn’t fall overnight either. "
6 " The media’s so central to our lives that we believe what we see onscreen is real. In fact, it’s more real than reality: emotions are heightened, drama sharpened, issues simplified. "
7 " It doesn’t matter whether it’s true, only that it’s believable. "
8 " An unquestioned assertion is as good as a truth. "
9 " If you’re drowning and a murderer throws you a line, you can’t wait for someone more agreeable to come along. "
10 " Life is rarely a choice between good and bad, but bad and worse. "
11 " The strength of a nation is its people, not its government. "
12 " If it hadn’t been seen, it hadn’t happened. "
13 " If we ask the state to guarantee our freedoms and ensure that justice is done, who guarantees that it does so? "
14 " He looked back as they shepherded the children indoors, thinking of the cities with their walls, gatehouses, razor wire, shutters, barriers, alarms, security cameras and bulletproof screens; it was the architecture of siege, not harmony. Division was engraved in the landscape and fear expressed in physical form. "
15 " By thinking in the prescribed language, we conform without realising. "
16 " If you load oppositional words with negative connotations, then critical thought is stifled. If you load supportive words with positive connotations, then people can’t avoid thinking in the prescribed way. "
17 " People want the Government to do their thinking for them. They happily regurgitate their catchphrases and slogans, thinking they’ve come up with the ideas themselves. It’s a well-known phenomenon: it’s called passive cognition. "
