Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny Quotes.

1. "Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for."
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

2. "Classically, at the beginning of a regime change, it is usually a good idea and trustworthy gesture for the new leader to renounce the evildoings of the old administration and establish as much distance from the outgoing disgrace as possible. When"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

3. "Give your oppressed masses a sense of virtue accumulated through suffering, and stand back and marvel as they censor themselves and act in a decent, God-fearing, law-abiding and—best of all—long-suffering manner, in order to feel ethically superior to you. I’ve"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

4. "All these massive executive-power-consolidating, pound-you-up-the-fanny-whenever-the-urge-so-takes-me directives could simply be ordered not to exist anymore by me, as your next president, with the simple stroke of my pen. So"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

5. "I pledge to do what must be done to get everyone before they get you, America. Free country or no free country, democracy or no democracy—at the end of the day, say what you want . . . You have to admit this: you’re American. Naked displays of raw proactive bully-power put a tingling feeling in your undershorts. You like to see the bad guys get it. Might"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

6. "The 20th century has been characterized by three developments of great political importance: The growth of democracy, the growth of corporate power, and the growth of corporate propaganda as a means of protecting corporate power against democracy. —Alex Carey, social scientist"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

7. "The comfort of the rich depends on an abundance of the poor. —Voltaire"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

8. "Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can’t really wake her up, but there’s things she’s still good for. To"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

9. "The vast majority of you (and democracy is, after all, majority rule) don’t actively participate in, protect, fight for or even understand democracy. That’s perfectly natural, mainly because you’ve never really had a democracy. What you have here, technically, is an oligarchy dressed down and slumming around in the hooded sweatshirt and baggy jeans of democracy. In"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny

10. "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . is the definition of tyranny. —James Madison"
- Cintra Wilson, Caligula for President: Better American Living Through Tyranny