Whence the empty suit

 

 

  There can be no kernel in this light nut; the soul of this man is his clothes.

-- William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well, Act 2 Scene 5 

She says, You're only taking orders, That's how every empire falls

 

 

 

 And great was the fall of it.

-- Matthew 7:27

Open your hearts to us.

-- II Corinthians 7:2 

Trump is already the living embodiment of the root of all evil, what more do you want?

 

 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

-- I Timothy 6:10

 

St. Augustine well spoke of the Donald Trumps of the world, the Vladimir Putins, the Xi Jinpings, who molest the land and the sea, whose modus operandi is robbery

 Trump on Venezuela: "We Are Going To Run The Country"

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Eaton, et al., WSJ

 

 

 Kingdoms without justice are similar to robber bands.

And so if justice is left out, what are kingdoms except great robber bands? For what are robber bands except little kingdoms? The band also is a group of men governed by the orders of a leader, bound by a social compact, and its booty is divided according to a law agreed upon. If by repeatedly adding desperate men this plague grows to the point where it holds territory and establishes a fixed seat, seizes cities and subdues peoples, then it more conspicuously assumes the name of kingdom, and this name is now openly granted to it, not for any subtraction of cupidity, but by addition of impunity. For it was an elegant and true reply that was made to Alexander the Great by a certain pirate whom he had captured. When the king asked him what he was thinking of, that he should molest the sea, he said with defiant independence: “The same as you when you molest the world! Since I do this with a little ship I am called a pirate. You do it with a great fleet and are called an emperor.”

-- St. Augustine, The City of God Against the Pagans IV 

All the world deludes itself with the charm, Happy New Year

 The commands which our religion hath imposed on its followers are not like the absurd ceremonies of pagan idolatry, that might look like incantations and magick, but had no tendency to make mankind the happier.

-- Richard Bentley