Basil Gentleman 🦋

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The most controversial devil ever carved in marble: #Sculpture

Tyranny over a man is not tyranny: it is rebellion, for man is royal. - G.K. Chesterton

Nothing withstands the influence of wealth. Everything submits to its tyranny, everything cowers at its dominion. - Basil of Caesarea

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. - Edwin Hubbell Chapin

Expel avarice, the mother of all wickedness, who, always thirsty for more, opens wide her jaws for gold. - Claudianus

Constant experience shows us that every man who has power is inclined to abuse it; he goes until he finds limits. - Montesquieu

Society must be made to operate in such a way that it eradicates once and for all the desire of a man to become richer … or more powerful than others. - Gracchus Babeuf

The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins. - Søren Kierkegaard

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it. - Frédéric Bastiat

Feudalism is but a system of Slaves and Tyrants; my country, desiring to be free, can no longer preserve anything in this system. - Gracchus Babeuf

The knowledge of feudal practices is the reason why I was perhaps the most formidable scourge of feudalism. - Gracchus Babeuf

The more the people are discontented with the oppression of taxes; the greater need the prince has of money to distribute among his partisans and pay the troops that are to suppress all resistance, and enable him to plunder at pleasure. - Benjamin Franklin

The marauders of the Internal Revenue Service, with strict quotas for how much they have to squeeze from taxpayers, descend on ordinary working people like locusts and plague them even unto death. - Karl Hess

When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally. - David R. Henderson

It is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without. - Albert Camus

“And there’s gold everywhere, what’s up with the gold!??” - Obama on Trump #Trump #Corruption

This sounds like the end of one of those beautiful fairy tales: “and then one day, he was just gone.” “and the celebration was heard around the world” #Trump

Designing some statues to build ✨ #statues #drawing #sculpture #sculptor #artist Music: Agnus Dei (After adagio for strings, Op 11.)

Even the great king will appear as the poorest of men if compared with a single virtue. For his wealth is soulless, buried deep in store-houses and recesses of the earth, but the wealth of virtue lies in the sovereign part of the soul, and the purest part of existence. - Philo (Ancient philosopher)

No fairer law in all the land Than that death-dealers die by what they've planned. - Ovid (Ancient Roman poet)

He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more. - Horace (Ancient Roman poet)

As money grows, care follows it and the hunger for more. - Horace (Ancient Roman poet)

If I knew of something that could serve my nation but would ruin another, I would not propose it to my prince, for I am first a man and only then a Frenchman, because I am necessarily a man, and only accidentally am I French. - Montesquieu

Yes, indeed, it is #Caturday today ✨

It is not the well-fed man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking. - Julius Caesar

Some marry the first information they receive, and turn what comes later into their concubine. Since deceit is always first to arrive, there is no room left for truth. - Baltasar Gracián

Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing. - Baltasar Gracián

Happy #Caturday

There should be 0% tolerance for government corruption. You are supposed to SERVE the citizens and BETTER THEIR lives. #JaredKushner

The sword was given for this, that none need live a slave. - Lucan (Roman epic poet)

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes. - William Cowper (English poet)

You have driven out the kings: but have you driven out the vices that their fatal domination has bred within you? - Maximilien Robespierre

The secret of liberty is to enlighten people, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance. - Maximilien Robespierre