 "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. ... By directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention." 
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations
I left the world of faith, of genital cutting and forced marriage for the world of reason and sexual emancipation. After making this voyage I know that one of these two worlds is simply better than the other. Not for its gaudy gadgetry, but for its fundamental values.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Infidel
Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic Bastiat
Government
Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle.
Lewis Carrol
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King
Contrary habits must be broken and good ones acquired and established, before we can have any dependence on a steady, uniform rectitude of conduct.
Benjamin Franklin
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
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrels.
Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"Intelligent Design" is a sham. Promote Darwin's Evolution, the REAL thing!
Manfred F. Schieder (1937 - )
I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me....Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We're in crisis and we're dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it's now. For the love of God, what are we doing about it?
Irshad Manji
The Trouble with Islam : A Muslim's Call for Reform in Her Faith, 2003
If someone tells you this is not a real push-up, tell him to f*** off.
Tony Horton
Tony Horton LIVE! in Miami Fitness Camp 2006
Do your best and forget the rest.
Tony Horton
Beachbody P90X Extreme Home Fitness Program
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
That we can really address [global warming] by changing our light bulbs, or that we can really make an impact by unplugging our appliances when we‘re not using them, is very much out of whack. So if we're only [going to] do symbolic actions, I would like to suggest a few symbolic actions that…might really mean something. One of them, which is very simple, [of which] 99% of the American population doesn‘t care, is ban private jets. Nobody needs to fly in them, ban them now. And…in addition, let‘s have the NRDC,…the Sierra Club and Greenpeace make it a rule that all of their…members, cannot fly on private jets, they must get their houses off the grid, they must live in the way that they‘re telling everyone else to live. And if they won‘t do that, why should we? And why should we take them seriously?
Michael Crichton
http://www.michaelcrichton.net/GlobalWarmingDebate.pdf
Truth may be stretched but can never be broken.
Unknown
Fortune Cookie
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard Feynman
"Our life is our answer."
Fred Bartlett
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/GeneralForum/1036.shtml#0
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy.
Margaret Thatcher
http://quotes4all.net/quotations/margaret%20thatcher/quote_1360.html
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell
Winston Smith, 1984
Our concept is more to accomplish and solve things, rather than giving — that is, not going around like Santa Claus. Poverty isn't solved with donations.
Carlos Slim Helú
Wikipedia
This land is the hope of the world
Mitt Romney
C-SPAN
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
Perhaps they need a good talking to, if you don't mind my saying so. Perhaps a bit more. My girls, sir, they didn't care for the Overlook at first. One of them actually stole a pack of matches, and tried to burn it down. But I 'corrected' them sir. And when my wife tried to prevent me from doing my duty, I 'corrected' her.
Stephen King
Caretaker Delbert Grady in The Shining 1980 Motion Picture
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
From each according to his ability, to each according to his contribution.
Charles G. Koch
Laissez-Faire Books Newsletter
Rationalism was an essential inclination amid the Muslim thinkers during the Golden Age of Islam; it was toleration of ideas in which the so-called golden age of Islam flourished.
Iqbal Latif
The saga of 'missing' Nobel prizes within nations of Islam
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Elbert Hubbard
quotes4all.net
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
New York City can't be stagnant, we can never let that happen. If that happens, you might as well give it up and move, go someplace else.
Donald Trump
http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=69087
As long as the arabs fight amongst themselves, they will remain a little people, a silly people, barbarous and cruel.
TS Lawrence
People who can do nothing else ought to rear people, while the rest work for their happiness and enlightenment.
Leo Tolstoy
Professor Katavassov in "Anna Karenina"
...the mainspring of all our actions is, after all, self-interest.
Leo Tolstoy
through Levin in "Anna Karenina"
The substitute for fear is not confidence. It's compassion for yourself and others.
Ross Jeffries
"What has sustainable development to do with human rights?"
Boniface Chidyausiku
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21717611-1702,00.html
...that an error made on your own is safer than ten truths accepted on faith, because the first leaves you the means to correct it, but the second destroys your capacity to distinguish truth from error.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged, "This is John Galt Speaking"
There are about 300 Million Americans, and 300 Million Arabs. If you subtract out oil, the Arab "GNP" is less than the 5 Million people of Finland, less than the total worth of Nokia. What is wrong with this culture?
Lawrence Wright
"Profiles in Terror," BOOK TV, 2007 L.A. Times Festival of Books
Making people say what they mean is not just half the battle, it is victory.
Ted Keer
Rebirth of Reason (http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/1742.shtml#12)
The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
Thomas Jefferson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErukvYVPOI
I swear eternal hate to the enemies of mind
Thomas Jefferson
What is the nature of Love? Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential, the best and noblest vision of oneself. Love is a reward, the greatest we can earn, granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our life.
Ayn Rand
Helen Mirren portraying Ayn Rand in "The Passion of Ayn Rand."
"The invisible and the non-existent often look very much alike."
Julia Sweeney
Letting Go of God
People Sleep Peaceably in their Beds at Night Only Because Rough Men Stand Ready to do Violence on their Behalf.
George Orwell
http://theredhunter.com/war_on_terror/index.php
The Vietnam war was...canceled, not lost.
John Armaos
RoR Was Vietnam Worth It?
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)
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 planet's most serious danger is the government of the United States. The people of the United States are being governed by a killer, a genocidal murderer and a madman.
Hugo Chavez
http://www.brownpride.us/america-latina/chavezs-dynamic-speeches-connect/
"Presidents don't lose wars. Political parties don't lose wars. Nations lose wars."
Senator John McCain, R-Arizona
To abstain from condemning a torturer is to become an accessory to his crimes
Ayn Rand
An Untitled Letter
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
We don't get our rights because we're gays, or women, or minorities. We get our rights from our Creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way.
Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG_HuFtP8w8
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