 We deny the snobbish assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous criminals. We remember the Roman Emperors. We remember the great poisoning princes of the Renaissance. We say that the most dangerous criminal is the educated criminal. We say that the most dangerous criminal is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral people, and my heart goes out to them.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Man who was Thursday
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
wikipedia
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.
Marilyn Monroe
wikipedia
We fight for the trust and for the tryst; for fixed memories and the possible meeting of men; for all that makes life anything but an uncontrollable nightmare. We fight for the long arm of honour and remembrance; for all that can lift a man above the quicksands of his moods, and give him the mastery of time.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
The Appetite of Tyranny
You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.
General Sir Charles Napier
Quoted in America Alone, Mark Steyn
Some of us worry about an insurgent Islam and its attendant complications for a decayed Western civilization; some of us worry about global warming. In twenty years' time, one of us we be proved right and the other will look like an idiot.
Dennis Prager
Mark Steyn's America Alone
Human life is not equivalent to 'death prevention'
Edward D. Thompson
A Question Regarding the Objectivist Ethics
When you try to explain the inexplicable, then you are about to forgive the unforgivable.
Nicolas Sarkozy
The New York Sun
Making someone's life "public" isn't a set up for discrimination, but for fascism
Teresa Summerlee Isanhart
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1112.shtml#12
But, after all, what is a scholar? One who may not break bounds under pain of expulsion from the academy of which he is a member.
Robert Graves
The White Goddess, p 25
When your heart is on fire, smoke gets in your eyes.
Anonymous
Russian proverb
A toast: To the Constitution of the United States, and confusion to its enemies!
Christopher Hitchens
The New Yorker
How many people have died because they would not abandon their luggage?
Robert A. Heinlein
Friday
The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig van Beethoven
Source attributed to Kain Scalia by Phil Osborn
What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and always will be thousands of princes, but there is only one Beethoven.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Islam is the only religion in the world that has a developed doctrine theology in law that mandates violence against unbelievers.
Robert Spencer
http://rebirthofreason.com/Spirit/Videos/13.shtml
It’s not what you think, it’s how you think that’s important.
Christopher Hitchens
Atlantic Monthly Interview
One side in the War on Terror is devoted to victory. Too bad it's not ours.
Deroy Murdock
http://www.islandpacket.com/24hour/opinions/story/3635472p-12963783c.html
character is not cut in marble -- it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do.
George Eliot
Middlemarch
The man told a newspaper he took the first flight from Atlanta to Europe for his wedding, then the second flight home because he feared he might die without treatment in the U.S.
Mike Stobbe
Groom with TB under federal quartine (Associated Press)
Grandpa Zach was as cantankerous an old coot as you'll ever meet. Hated government, hated lawyers, hated civil servants, hated preachers, hated public transportation, public schools, mobile phones, was contemptuous of most editors, most writers, most professors, most of almost anything. But he overtipped waitresses and porters and would go out of his way to avoid stepping on an insect.
Robert A. Heinlein
The Number of the Beast
He was a very humane person. He was a hard man also. He wanted everybody to be 100 percent
Marlena Librescu, on her martyred husband, Liviu
The fact to which we have got to cling, as to a life-belt, is that it is possible to be a normal decent person and yet to be fully alive.
George Orwell
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
Objectivism is a philosophy which avers that knowledge is possible. Science is that knowledge, systematized and, when based on reason and observation, self-correcting.
Ted Keer
Rebirth of Reason
Do your best and forget the rest.
Tony Horton
Beachbody P90X Extreme Home Fitness Program
"Intelligent Design" is a sham. Promote Darwin's Evolution, the REAL thing!
Manfred F. Schieder (1937 - )
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Lewis Carrol
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
You don't have to believe in atheism, because atheism is based on REASON.
Manfred F. Schieder (1937 - )
Schieder's own mind.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Mark Twain
You goddamn fool, do you think I consider their question debatable?
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged Part One Chapter VII "The Exploiters And The Exploited"
I never talk about myself. My work is me. I do my best, and if I like it, I hope somebody else likes it, too.
Steve Ditko
Showcase #73, April, 1968
Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached.
Manuel Paleologos II
14th Century Byzantine Christian Emperor
I don't give a damn about my critics. I have yet to meet a good one.
Ayn Rand
The Phil Donahue Show
I think regret is the toughest word in the English language, and one should try to live one's life so you don't feel regret.
William Shatner
"Terrorists can do anything they like. We are businessmen, we will be going back to work. It won't hamper our business, it won't stop our work."
Dilip Khadaria
"Indian police hunt for clues to train bombers", Baku Today
Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake...drama is life with the dull bits left out."
Alfred Hitchcock
...freedom isn't a commodity to compromise.
Captain America
Brian Michael Bendis, The New Avengers #21, August, 2006
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
John Wooden
"A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling... In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat."
Eric Hoffer
The True Believer, Section 10
"Life is too short to be little."
Benjamin Disraeli
No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that is in the right and keeps on a-comin'.
Captain Bill McDonald, Texas Ranger
http://andrewbernstein.net/heroes/41_cowboy.htm
I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good.
Oprah Winfrey
Doug Fabian's Making Money Alert for March 22, 2006
"To honor all men is to honor none."
Moliere
The Misanthrope
People should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people.
V
V for Vendetta
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Picasso
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence—it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearsome master.
George Washington
http://www.objectivistcenter.org/cth--810-Example_Our_First_President.aspx
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