 Democrats make sure we all share our toys, just like Mommy does.
Jeremy Zilber
http://littledemocrats.net/
The first rule of human happiness is to want the truth, the second is to learn to recognize it when it comes. It’s all about wanting what you really need, and -- as a human “being” -- you really do need these 2 things (to thrive).
Edward D. Thompson
Ed Thompson
Live in the world, not against it.
Philip Coates
http://rebirthofreason.com/Forum/ArticleDiscussions/0257.shtml#15
Few people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Bin Laden our beloved, Denmark must be blown up," protesters in Ramallah chanted.
Tribalist Mystics in Palestine
http://tinyurl.com/c45d5
“The Randian strategic view is… before you can do anything politically you have to have everyone agree with Randian philosophy; free will, concept and percept and all the other crap… Since you are not going to have that in practice you have just regular statists.”
Murray N. Rothbard
http://mises.org:88/Rothbard1989
My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso
If we don't formally teach our children how to think — society will teach them not to.
Camp Indecon website
http://www.campindecon.org/content-philosophy.html
The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.
Leonardo da Vinci
http://angelcaremontessori.com/index_original.htm
If a soda and a candy bar each cost a dollar, and you've got one dollar, you have to choose. If you have two dollars, you can have both
Joseph Rowlands
From The meaning of life by, Joe Rowlands
Thomas Edison did more for civilization than all the gurus and all the world's religions.
Steve Jobs
LA Times: Walt's Shoes at Disney Could Be a Fit for Jobs
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.
Ayn Rand
Opening paragraph of the personal statements by a Ph.D. student applicant
The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.
Japanese Proverb
deru kugi wa utareru
The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose.
Frederick Douglass
The Free Dictionary - Quotation of the Day
Of course I'm a sexist. Any time a man says anything negative about a woman he's automatically a sexist. It doesn't matter if it's true or not. That never even enters the equation.
Jeff Wayne
It's OK To Be a White Male Comedy CD
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.
Anton Chekhov
Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
Anton Chekhov
Every immigrant makes America more American.
Ronald Reagan
Collaboration of the more talented, more able, and more industrious with the less talented, less able, and less industrious results in benefit for both. The gains derived from the division of labor are always mutual.
Ludwig von Mises
Human Action
What exactly is success? For me it is to be found not in applause, but in the satisfaction of feeling that one is realizing one's ideal.
Anna Pavlova
Those who condemn wealth are those who have none and see no chance of getting it.
William Penn Patrick
Investor Words Quote of the Day -- http://www.InvestorWords.com
What's invalid is invalid. It's generally not a point of discussion except for those who insist on claiming that they have unprovable beliefs. Reality invalidates the arbitrary and the non-existant. ... not me.
Ethan Dawe
In response to a Religionist, on the "Forty-Two Will Do" thread.
Most governments have historically been giant schemes of organized crime, in which a small class of politically connected individuals uses their coercive power to fleece everyone else.
Robert Tracinski
The Intellectual Activist Daily, December 22, 2005
Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. . . . The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it.
Ludwig von Mises
Bureaucracy
In the search for companies to acquire, we adopt the same attitude one might find appropriate in looking for a spouse: it pays to be active, interested, and open-minded, but it does not pay to be in a hurry.
Warren Buffett
Investor Words Quote of the Day -- http://www.investorwords.com
Such is the basic contradiction---and the terrible parasitic immorality---of any attempt to "tongue-in-cheek" thrillers. It requires that one employ all the values of a thriller in order to hold the audience's interest, yet turn these values against themselves, that one damage the very elements one is using and counting on. It means an attempt to cash in on the thing one is mocking, to profit by the audience's hunger for Romanticism while seeking to destroy it. This is not the method of a legitimate satire: satire does not share the values of that which it denounces; it denounces by means and context of an opposite set of values.
Ayn Rand
Bootleg Romanticism: The Romantic Manifesto
Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.
Benjamin Franklin
Investor Words Quote of the Day -- http://www.investorwords.com
It's the perfect solution to the "Middle East peace process": out of sight, out of mind. And given that Ahmadinejad's out of his mind, we're already halfway there.
Mark Steyn
http://www.suntimes.com/output/steyn/cst-edt-steyn11.html
When I wrote on my door: "Leave your traditions outside, Before you come in," Not a soul dared To visit me or open my door.
Kahil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran - Lib of Congress catalogue card no.: 62-19768
He brings disaster upon his nation who never sows a seed, or lays a brick, or weaves a garment, but makes politics his occupation.
Kahil Gibran
Spiritual Sayings of Kahlil Gibran - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUE CARD NO.: 62-19768
Insane? HA! That's so easy so convienient and so WRONG. Crazy people push shopping carts down streets and talk nonsense. Crazy people sit in padded cells and soil their pants. A madwoman couldn't have pulled this off. No. There's a word for what I am but nobody uses it anymore. Nobody wants to see the simple truth. If they did they'd kill people like me as soon as we revealed ourselves. But they don't. They blather about psychology and say nobody is truly EVIL. That's why I've won. That's why I always win.
Frank Miller
The character Ava--Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Christ, in terms of the Christian philosophy, is the human ideal. He personifies that which men should strive to emulate. Yet, according to the Christian mythology, he died on the cross not for his own sins but for the sins of the non-ideal people. In other words, a man of perfect virtue was sacrificed for men who are vicious and who are expected or supposed to accept that sacrifice. If I were a Christian, nothing would make me more indignant than that: the notion of sacrificing the ideal to the non-ideal, or virtue to vice. And it is in the name of that symbol that men are asked to sacrifice themselves for their inferiors. That is precisely how the symbolism is used.
Ayn Rand
“Playboy’s Interview with Ayn Rand,” – ARL p 411
The alleged short-cut to knowledge, which is faith, is only a short-circuit destroying the mind.
Ayn Rand
GS, FNI, 157 – ARL p 158
The reciprocal relationship of epistemology and science is of noteworthy kind. They are dependent upon each other. Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is—insofar as it is thinkable at all—primitive and muddled.
Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist
Love, friendship, respect, admiration are the emotional response of one man to the virtues of another, the spiritual payment given in exchange for the personal, selfish pleasure which one man derives from the virtues of another man’s character.
Ayn Rand
The Soviet Union suddenly collapsed in 1989, when owing to the inability of communism to create wealth, the state went bankrupt, was unable to maintain its army and hold its empire together. In France, the same thing might be happening.
Paul Belien
"France's Toll of Destruction, Brussels Journal, November 18, 2005
"Whatever is done for men takes away from the stimulus and necessity of doing things for themselves. The value of legislation as an agent in human advancement has been much over estimated. No Laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober".
Samuel Smiles
Self Help
Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1748
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
Investor Words Quote of the Day http://www.investorwords.com
Good... Bad... I'm the guy with the gun.
Bruce Campbell
Army of Darkness
If we [humans] disappeared overnight, the world would probably be better off.
David Attenborough
The Daily Telegraph, London, 12 November
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
To err is human, but it feels divine.
Mae West
Ross' Big Book of Bad Boy Quotes
To err is human, to repent divine, to persist devilish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1742
Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have the clue to his character. You will have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
Robert McCracken
Investor Words Quote of the Day http://www.investorwords.com
I'm passionately involved in life - to be alive, to have music, to walk, to see - it's all a miracle. Music is not a hobby not even a passion. Music is me.
Arthur Rubenstein
Pianist
The only two things a pirate will run for is money and public office.
Yosemite Sam
I sing from the heart... I sing the words of a song and really feel them, from the top of my head to the tip of my toes... I sing as though my life depends on it, and if I ever stop doing that then I'll stop living
Mario Lanza
Just for the record, WMD was never my rationale. As I've said on many occasions, when it comes to toppling dictators, there's no such thing as an "illegitimate" rationale. In his obstruction of U.N. weapons inspectors, Saddam certainly acted as if he had WMD and, in his "trade" missions to Niger (principal exports: uranium, goats, cowpeas, and onions), as if he were eager to acquire more. There's something to be said for taking a chap at his word.
Mark Steyn
http://www.nationalreview.com/issue/steyn200511070904.asp
There, where the state ends - there only begins the man who is not superfluous: there begins the song of the necessary man, the unique and irreplaceable melody.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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