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"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity." - Hunter S. Thompson
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul, can always count on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Goethe
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. – Gary Lloyd
[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws. – Ayn Rand
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. – Alexander Tytler
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. – Edward R. Murrow
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. – Milton Friedman
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire (1764)
And something that couldn't be more appropriate for today in the US (and Greece and Spain) : Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover
If you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all. – Jacob Hornberger (1995)
The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates. – Tacitus
Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. – George Washington
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. – Goethe
When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence. – Gary Lloyd
[On ancient Athens]: In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again. – Edward Gibbon
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. – C. S. Lewis
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible to live without breaking laws. – Ayn Rand
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until a majority of voters discover that they can vote themselves largess out of the public treasury. – Alexander Tytler
A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. – Edward R. Murrow
The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one another to deal with one another and help one another. – Milton Friedman
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. – Winston Churchill
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. – Voltaire (1764)
And something that couldn't be more appropriate for today in the US (and Greece and Spain) : Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. – Herbert Hoover
Maklershed
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"I was a relatively respectable citizen a multiple felon, perhaps, but certainly not dangerous. And when the Great Scorer came to write against my name, that would surely make a difference."
- Hunter S Thompson
- Hunter S Thompson
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free7palestine
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"i am who i am and cannot be who i am not"
john lennon (rip)
john lennon (rip)
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. – William Pitt (1783)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. – Pericles (430 BC)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer (1891)
More laws, less justice. – Marcus Tullius Ciceroca (42 BC)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. – William Penn (1693)
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill (1903)
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. – Thomas Sowell (1992)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. – Albert Einstein
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken
And somethings never change....
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. – Pericles (430 BC)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. – Herbert Spencer (1891)
More laws, less justice. – Marcus Tullius Ciceroca (42 BC)
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. – William Penn (1693)
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill (1903)
If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves. – Thomas Sowell (1992)
Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. – Albert Einstein
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. – George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. – H.L. Mencken
And somethings never change....
The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign governments must be reduced. If the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt, people must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance. – Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55 BC
Power is when we have every justification to kill, and we don't. (Oskar Schindler, Schinlder's list)
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. - Albert Einstein
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. - Tobsha Learner
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. - JK Rowling (Deathly Hallows)
"Don't fall in love with a tennis player because love means nothing to them" Unknown
"A few words placed between quotation marks are not always life altering." Unknown
War does not determine who is right - only who is left. ~Bertrand Russell
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. - George Orwell
A liberal is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Robert Frost
As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it. - Albert Einstein
Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires. - Tobsha Learner
Perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. Those who have leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must, and find to their own surprise that they wear it well. - JK Rowling (Deathly Hallows)
"Don't fall in love with a tennis player because love means nothing to them" Unknown
"A few words placed between quotation marks are not always life altering." Unknown
movie_club
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"We all make choices in life, but in the end our choices make us."- Andrew Ryan
dinazimmerman
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“The Puritan wanted to work in a calling; we are forced to do so….for the Puritan, care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment. But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.” --Max Weber
Some more churchill quotes-
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
[even churchill knew that cats>dogs]
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
[even churchill knew that cats>dogs]
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
Christianity - The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree... - unknown
In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place. – Mohandas Gandhi
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat
We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. – William L. Comer
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mohandas Gandhi
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. – Walter Williams
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. – Plato circa 400 B.C.
Everyone wants to live at the expense of the State. They forget that the State lives at the expense of everyone. – Frédéric Bastiat
We are living in a sick society filled with people who would not directly steal from their neighbor but who are willing to demand that the government do it for them. – William L. Comer
He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. – Mohandas Gandhi
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long. – Thomas Sowell
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. – Mohandas Gandhi
Liberals believe government should take people's earnings to give to poor people. Conservatives disagree. They think government should confiscate people's earnings and give them to farmers and insolvent banks. The compelling issue to both conservatives and liberals is not whether it is legitimate for government to confiscate one's property to give to another, the debate is over the disposition of the pillage. – Walter Williams
This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. – Plato circa 400 B.C.
BobbyRobby
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sonicfan said:
good quote. i'm always amazed when browsing topics how people seem to ignore this.
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Anarchistry
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"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster
and if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you""- Nietzsche
AwesomePossum
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George Orwell
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~ Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr. (3rd man to set foot on the moon)
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Parts said:
I love that.
This, I don't particularly believe, but I like it:
"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything." Fight Club
MilesWebber
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"Intelligence is knowing tomatos are a fruit. Wisdom is not putting them in a fruit salad."
:lolmajor_killjoy
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Some Asimov love:
'If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them'
'Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome'
'Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once'
'The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom'
'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent'
'If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them'
'Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome'
'Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once'
'The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom'
'Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent'
ElectricBlue187
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major_killjoy said:
my favorite Asimov quote:
It makes it all worth it if you really think about it.
B For Bendetta
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"If you have the guts to be yourself...other people'll pay your price" - Rabbit Angstrom in John Updike's "Rabbit, Run"
HyperZone<3
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I do love that Ben Franklin
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.
Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one.
Our necessities never equal our wants.
HyperZone<3
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Yeah, quotes from the faraway land of 1986 tend to stand up pretty well to the age of now.sonicfan said:
'In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.'
- Orson Welles
'The woman who marries a cowbow falls in love with a musician, and vice versa -- that's all right: one knows what to look out for. But the woman who marries "a nobody in particular" might fall in love with the whole catalogue of men!'
- Not Louis Wain
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'
'Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.'
- Isaac Asimov
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
- Henry Kissinger
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
- John Maynard Keynes
- Orson Welles
'The woman who marries a cowbow falls in love with a musician, and vice versa -- that's all right: one knows what to look out for. But the woman who marries "a nobody in particular" might fall in love with the whole catalogue of men!'
- Not Louis Wain
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...'
'Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.'
- Isaac Asimov
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
- Henry Kissinger
If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.
- John Maynard Keynes
Massive Nights
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We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty - Edward R. Murrow
Pizza Luigi
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'There is no try. There is just do or do not.'
woodsey1982
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By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin
My History teacher in school had this quote above the the front of the class...kind of got us in the right mindset before exams!
My History teacher in school had this quote above the the front of the class...kind of got us in the right mindset before exams!
abstract alien
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This one has always reminded me of one a friend I workout with always says:woodsey1982 said:
"If you take shortcuts, you cut yourself short."
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