Sparks: Donald Trump bans three media outlets from the White House, accusing them of spreading 'fake news'
The situation is described as a permanent severance, yet beneath the description, the shouting mouth and the deaf ear are held in a rigid tension that defines the shape of the palace gate.
If the magistrate determines which witness may speak, he has not merely silenced the opposition, he has declared that the truth is no longer a discovery to be made but a decree to be issued.
Men tremble at the power of the gatekeeper only because they do not see that the words are merely colliding atoms, and no wall can prevent the swerve of a single particle of thought.
By closing the door to sharpen the echo, the ruler ensures that the only voice he hears is the one he already possesses, which is the surest way to become hollow while appearing full.
Surround the source of information with fire, and you force the scouts to find higher ground where they can observe the entire camp without the burden of your hospitality.
Politicians figure if they stop letting the papers in the house, the folks outside will believe the house is finally clean, but all it really does is make the neighbors wonder what’s burning.
The claim is that exclusion preserves the integrity of the record, yet the premise assumes that a circle remains a circle when you remove the points that define its diameter.
There is a gate across this hall built to keep out the liars, but the modern reformer forgets that a gate is the only thing that proves the house is worth breaking into.
It is a measure of most excellent economy to admit only those chroniclers who agree with the state, as it saves the public the exhausting labor of having to distinguish between two different opinions.
In the courts of the West, I observe a strange custom where the sultan refuses the entry of certain scribes, a practice that would leave a traveler with no map but the one drawn by the host.
Breaking the circuit of observation does not stop the transmission of energy; it merely creates a dangerous arc where the sparks will fly in directions the architect cannot possibly predict or contain.
Our great leaders have discovered the secret to a perfect history, which is simply to ensure that the only people permitted to write it are those who find the present state of affairs magnificent.
Observing the palace from the dusty road provides a much clearer view of the fortification than sitting inside the parlor where the curtains are drawn to hide the unrest of the mountains.
When the head refuses to let the eyes see the sickness in the limbs, the living green of the spirit withers because the light is blocked by the very walls meant to protect the heart.