Donald James Quotes

Donald James shares thoughtful reflections on impulsiveness and inertia for anyone pondering personal growth.

6 quotes

1. At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

2. Better a sovereign in squalor than a slave in splendor.

3. The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves. A truth's initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn't the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn't flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

4. The goal of tyrants is tyranny, and the goal of tyranny is tyranny.

5. That got me a look so intense I was unable to interpret it - like the way cats sometimes fix on you. What they mean by the look is completely beyond understanding; but it's meant for you, you alone.

6. The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.