>“The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them.”
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>― Elena Gorokhova, A Mountain of Crumbs
Good quote.
This quote reminds me of another very popular quote in the Soviet Union. The SU had no rich, no poor, everybody was making about the same amount of money (pretty much what Bernie advocates). One of the examples was the doctors made the same (or even less) than a guy who was turning nuts and bolts at a factory. This "equality" created such a lack of desire or motivation to work or improve the quality of service that the quote was "They pretend they pay us; and we pretend we work."
"The creative process is nothing but a series of crises." Isaac Bashevis Singer
"My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." Oscar Wilde
"If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." W.Somerset Maugham
