When someone tells you that there is no agenda, you can be certain there is nothing but an agenda.

Indoctrination is the dubious art of leading an individual to become convinced that some conviction arose from deep within the core of their being, when in fact it was subtly implanted from some place far outside of the core of anything except the greed of the one who planted it.

Truth has legs that are longer than any of our lies. In time it will catch up to us, not because the truth has longer legs, but because lies haven’t got a ‘leg to stand on’ much less any legs to run on.

If our commitment to an agenda is so passionate that we will rewrite the history that does not support it, we have become a blind slave to a rogue agenda that will destroy us in the service of it.

Doing ‘nothing’ is often cowardice that we’ve dressed up to look like discretion.

Truth is the thing that lies spend their lives running from.

To give our lives over to the pursuit of making our greed look like it’s something other than greed so that we can feel good about not being good is to find ourselves in the pursuit of one of the greediest things imaginable.

Just because we chose to reject the truth doesn't mean that such an option was actually available to us.

A ‘cause’ that serves our purpose is, in reality, an ‘agenda’ that we’ve attempted to make noble by dressing it up in the finery of a cause. But as my Dad used to say, 'you can’t put perfume on a pig.