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Interesting Quotes - Page 4
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Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
- Samuel Johnson
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Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton
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Everything in moderation, including moderation.
- Unknown
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A conservative is a liberal who's been mugged. A liberal is a conservative who's been arrested.
- Unknown
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The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher (paraphrased)
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If you mean it's not a reliable source, that depends. Certainly you shouldn't be using Wikipedia for an academic paper, but the fact that it's fact-checked by so many people means that it's now probably one of the most reliable sources on the internet most of the time (taking into account warning banners on the tops of pages and leaving aside certain communities like the three or four different Serbo-Croatian dialects).
After all, approximately three quarters of new content on the internet is AI-generated (Source: https://ahrefs.com/blog/what-percentage-of-new-content-is-ai-generated/). Wikipedia may not be the greatest source, but at least you can generally be sure that major articles were written by humans who know something about the field they were writing about.
As the cost of living increases, resources become scarcer, populations increase, ect. - all these things mean less money-per-person. And that means deciding to take actions such as (but not limited to as creative dictators have proven) reappropriating ownership (stealing), reduction of population (killing), forcible reduction in cost of living by not providing the basic necessities. And for their unpopularity, even more methods of authoritarian control are peddled, in the realm of surveillance, CI's, murdering dissenters.
No part of socialism at any degree is about fiscal responsibility, you suckle off the state and you give as much as is demanded, and in times of shortage, you have, and get nothing.