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“If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humoured these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible.”

Politics Kings Madness Insanity Rulers Plato Aristotle Emperors

Book:Pensées

Source: Pensées

“At all times an empire is more important than emperor and empress, prince and princess.”

“Megalomaniacs like Alistair Drummond have become emperors and führers, served by underlings who never questioned their most irrational orders.”

Megalomania Emperors Fuhrer Megalomaniac Underling Alistair Drummond Führers

Book:Orion Arm

Source: Orion Arm

“In the 300 years of the crucifixion of Christ to the conversion of Emperor Constantine, polytheistic Roman emperors initiated no more than four general persecutions of Christians. Local administrators and governors incited some anti-Christian violence of their own. Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians. In contrast, over the course, of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions, to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”

Religion Christ Christianity Persecution Christians Constantine Romans Emperors

Book:קיצור תולדות האנושות

Source: קיצור תולדות האנושות

“Where did the Picts live? Might they still be here? The Romans were so scared of them they built a wall. Two walls, by orders of two emperors after they successively failed to frighten them into passivity. And now the Celtic Supremicists. Is there nothing this part of the world will stop at to create its own agenda?”

Agendas Romans Celts Picts Walls Of Defence Emperors

Book:Badlands

Source: Badlands