Side by side

Men look at the stars. Women look at the moon. 

Both dream of the heavens. 

Who’s fishing?

Show someone they're a fish and you'll save them for a day. Teach them how people phish and you'll save them for a lifetime.

Attention

If you want to keep someone interested make sure there are patterns they can recognise even if they don't exist.

Long term evil

Bureaucrats think in decades, voters think in months.

Form future allies now

Always shake the dunny man's hand.

Fight to the death

No one wants to die but I'd rather face a predator than a parasite. 

Useful information

Organising information is crucially different to actively using information.

Early murmurs

Words and concepts are often, not always, precursors to propagandising populations to accept plans of the elite.

A square kneel

The king doesn't trust people to kneel at home he wants to see them kneeling in the square.

Surely so

Acknowledging we all have biases doesn't mean we can't discuss issues but it does temper certainty.

Feeding revolution

Nothing feeds the hunger for change like an empty stomach.

Finally done

I do what I can do and once I do it's done.

Beneath the surface

If you stir the pot you can see the crap.

Successful gradients

Slowly build capacity or slowly lose capacity.

Healthy questions

Science demands we ask questions to keep it healthy. Feelings based censorship is a sickness.

Field effects

Sometimes we can skip through a minefield.

At other times we blow up on our first step.

Quick, slowly

Sometimes you have to slow down to go faster.

Way too comfortable

If you stay within your comfort zone then you'll always be there.

Totalitarian equality

You can't have fascism without totalitarianism and you can't have totalitarianism without progressive politics using totalitarianism to enforce equality.

Hunting with no gun

When I go hunting everyone in the car gets credit, even the driver without a gun.

Hueves

You can lead a horse to watercolours but you can't make it pink.

Hanging Jesters

When the only people who can report facts are journalists, and the only people who can be journalists are those approved by the establishment being reported upon, then only the Courtiers remain and the Jesters are hung.

Devilish corruption

The devil corrupts what we most trust and abuses it till we see his game.

Perceptual claws

If crabs only walked sideways they'd never swim in the ocean.

Nourishing nature

Losing our connection with nature is like drinking Brawndo instead of water.

Claiming direction

You can't raise the bar unless you first take hold.

Degrees of perception

Our choice of ruler sets how we measure the world.

A long smile

Photons from stars have travelled trillions of kilometres across space to be welcomed by our eyes and make us smile.

Partly complete

You don't have to do the whole thing to do something.

Our small view of a big future

We know too little to say no.

What you serve

Serve the machine, be the machine.

Confined laughter

Keep drawing lines that can't be crossed by humour and soon you'll have a cage.

Illuminating politics

The best time to see the light is while sunlight shines on the truth.

Money tree

Your wealth doesn't matter. A frangipani is still a frangipani. 

Choice of chains

The most effective slavery is that which people choose.

Ideological swallows

Vagaries are an insidious spice.

Liquid reign

Make the trail inviting and horses will lead themselves to water.

Calculating control

Money and power are both variables in the control equation.

Next thought

As long as the next generations can think freely a golden future is assured.

Natural time

Humans think in terms of days. Nature ponders decades.

Sought

The search for light is eternal.

Game off

Sports is the most important unimportant human pastime.

Artfully tasty

Food is just a painting for your mouth.

Speak of another master

Actions, not words, reveal the master served.

Cooperative evil

A snake's venom is useless without the rest of the body pushing fangs into the child's crib.

Begone demon of negativity

When you live in the household of reality never invite a succubus to cross the threshold.

Only war?

War can be just but it can never be just war.

Cling wrap cow

Meat just magically appears in the supermarket.

Rebiting desired fruit

Never trust the soothing words of a viper who saw you recoil faster than expected from their first failed strike. 

Drawing out the truth

A good caricature lets us see the soul behind the face.

Voter’s worth

We know how little our politicians value us by how little it takes to bribe them against us.

Fresh Bait

"I'll only tax the rich" is a well worn hook for fingerlings.

Evil

Evil has no creativity.

Wherever we look

We look ahead. We look behind. We look up and we look down. Wherever we look there are mysteries to solve and wonders to behold.

Stopping war

War doesn't start stopping until it stops starting.

Election tails

The closer they get to elections the more fox tails they need to hang from the barbed wire. 

Up to you

Empower your self yourself.

Seeking validation

If you continually ask for permission people will keep saying no.

War’s aftertaste

Cleansing the palette with a sorbet of self righteousness doesn't wash away the taint left by a banquet of violence. 

Follow the mooney

Feed your fattest cow the most grass.

Canine shakes

Restless dogs don't guarantee an earthquake but it's the wrong time to hide in a hole.

Laying around

Beauty is made from what's available. 

Sour purge

When politics sour worms turn and those in line cheer the purges of those ahead.

Crafty consequences

The population of foxes tends to triple when bounties are paid for tails.

Bitten by the past

Sometimes sheepdogs act like they're descended from wolves.

Not odd

The house is never made to shelter the punter.

The balloon of justice

The citizenry used to have a powerful pin but pages of legislation papier-mâchéd with political spittle onto the justice balloon have made it almost impervious to our will.

The bountiful cherry tree

When you find a slightly rotten cherry in your basket don't chop down the whole tree in anger.

Loony Democracy

Democracy - your "common sense" candidates are someone else's loonies and vice versa. You're both right and you're both wrong. 

When to leave

When the "illuminated" crowd is exhorting you to get in ... get out.

Political clergy

Power and control is agnostic about the Mass that makes them high priests. 

The price of doing

Words are easily spent but it's actions that cost.