Donald James Quotes

• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.

  Donald James

  Self, Perfect, Historical

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• When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Democracies Have

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• The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

  Donald James

  Truth, Lying, Self

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• Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

  Donald James

  Sovereign, Splendor, Slave

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• The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

  Donald James

  Tyrants, Goal, Tyranny

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• At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

  Donald James

  Mistake, Half, Other Half

  "Vadim". Book by Donald James, December 2000.

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• That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

  Donald James

  Mean, Cat, Understanding

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