 Snowflakes, like people, are all different and beautiful, but they can be a nuisance when they lose their identity in a mob
Anonymous
"Monday-This new creature with the long hair is a good deal in the way. It is always hanging around and following me about. I don't like this; I am not used to company, I wish it would stay with the other animals...Cloudy today, wind in the east; think we shall have rain...We? Where did I get that word?...I remember now--the new creature uses it."
Mark Twain
Adam's Diary
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune. This has been repeatedly and quite lately demonstrated. Federal aid in such cases encourages the expectation of paternal care on the part of the Government and weakens the sturdiness of our national character, while it prevents the indulgence among our people of that kindly sentiment and conduct which strengthens the bonds of a common brotherhood.
US President Grover Cleveland, 1887, upon vetoing legislation for relief for drought-striken Texas farmers
The American Republic will last only until its politicians discover that they can bribe their people with their own money.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Seen on FARK.com
The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do. It is the freedom to refrain, withdraw, and abstain which makes a totalitarian regime impossible.
Eric Hoffer
To be nobody-but-yourself—in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you somebody else—means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Edward Estlin Cummings
Disney censors their mouse ears. We all got these mickey ears, and they wouldn't put my nickname on mine, simply because it has the word "bun" at the end. Because "we don't want to offend our foreign visitors." What?!?!?! That makes no sense. It pissed me off, and disappointed me. Grumble. Disney's going to get an earful of all the names they aren't allowed to put on the hats by that logic, like Peter, and Willy, and Tina, and H, and Fanny, and Jimmy...the list goes on and on.
Lisa Palin
http://joanarc4.blogspot.com/
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Rand was also true to her values, an attitude which today is regarded as downright rude in dry, academic circles. If Rand admired something, her praise was an exultant hymn—when she admired something, she hero-worshipped. Conversely, if Rand did not think highly of something or someone, her attack could be merciless. Her sense of justice demanded this attitude ...
James S. Valliant
The Passion of Ayn Rand's Critics
Home is where the heart is, but the stars are made of Latinum.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Ferengi Rule of Acquisition No. 75
I do agree Muslim Americans are just as law abiding and patriotic as most others bla bla bla.But can we stop pretending there is absolutely NOTHING intrinsic to Islam that promotes fanatical zealotry, terrorism, and violence against women?Can we stop pretending that what young Muslim boys are learning in Madrasahs of Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan is good old fahsioned "love thy neighbor" theology?Can we stop ignoring the fact that the subjugation of women is a scripturally based tradition?Can we ignore the fact that Islam has become a religion bankrupt of intellectualism?Can we ignore the fact that any public figure who voices these concerns faces death threats?Say what you want about Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and the rest of the whackjob religious right, but if you criticize them on TV, one does not typically need to worry about being shiskabobbed by a motorcycle riding zealot.
Simon Magus
FARK.com, "Iranian president willing to share nuclear technology with other Arabic nations" thread at 2005-09-15 06:44:49 PM
The American people believe that they have a God-given right to as many health care services as they want, paid for by someone else.
Arnold Kling
EconLog weblog, Sept. 14, 2005
I am. I exist - that is certain; but for how long do I exist? For as long as I think; for it might perhaps happen, if I totally ceased thinking, that I would, at the same time, cease to be.
Rene Descartes
Meditations on First Philosophy
[New Zealand Prime Minister, Helen Clark]... never had a grand vision for New Zealand. She had a grand vision for herself.
Bob Jones
Radio Interview
Within ten days thou wilt seem a god to those to whom thou art now a beast and an ape, if thou wilt return to thy principles and to worship of reason.
Marcus Aurelius
Meditations, Book 4, verse 16
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Thomas Jefferson
Letter to John Adams, 11 April 1823
If living like the Amish is the only way to avoid 'consumerism', then..what is wrong with consumerism in the first place?
Joseph Heath and Andrew Potter
Nation of Rebels
There are too many people spending money they haven't earnt buying things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith
Reader's Digest
When Barbara Branden was asked by a student"What will happen to the poor in an Objectivist society?" she answered "If you want to help them, you will not be stopped."
Ayn Rand
The Virtue of Selfishness
It is terrifying when evil is so confident that it seeks no subterfuge, but instead, plainly presents itself.
Scott DeSalvo
Scott DeSalvo, SOLO
I believe in death. The U.S.A. believes in life. That is the difference between us.
Osama bin Laden
National Geographic's "Inside 9/11"
Somebody needs to get the collected works of Ayn Rand down to New Orleans right away, preferably in a waterproof edition.
Scott McLemee
http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/09/06/mclemee
Only an idiot – someone utterly ignorant of basic principles of economics, and of the morality of free-market capitalism – would decry business profits or would think that “price-gouging” is a bad thing.
Dr. David N. Mayer
http://users.law.capital.edu/dmayer/Blog/
Unlike 9/11, when the cult of victimhood was temporarily suspended in honour of the many real, actual victims under the rubble, in New Orleans everyone claimed the mantle of victim, from the incompetent mayor to the "oppressed" guys wading through the water with new DVD players under each arm. Welfare culture is bad not just because, as in Europe, it's bankrupting the state, but because it enfeebles the citizenry, it erodes self-reliance and resourcefulness.
Mark Steyn
"The Big Easy rocked, but didn't roll," The Telegraph, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/09/06/do0602.xml
Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this.
Marcus Aurelius
The Meditations
Justice is the armed defense of innocent liberty.
Wolf DeVoon
http://billstclair.com/organic-law/
By now you've probably seen at least one instance of this spate of tiresome ruminations on how the hurricane is some sort of ultimate gotcha to deploy against the idea of small government. This is all profoundly stupid. There is no deep overarching ideological point here, because for pretty much everyone short of the anarchists, preventing the collapse of civilization into a huge Hobbesian clusterfuck makes the list—whether yours is short or long—of things governments are supposed to do—state governments when feasible (assuming adequate preparation on the ground is better than airlifts later), federal government when it isn't.
Julian Sanchez
www.reason.com
SOS: I'm being attacked by the perpetual "quote" block in the threads.
source of quote
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes aware of it when one is choking. Similarly, it is only when one confronts political tyranny that one really grasps the meaning and importance of freedom.
William E. Simon [1928 - 2000]
P. 19 - A Time For Truth - ISBN 0-07-057378-6
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.
Robert Anson Heinlein
http://atheism.about.com/library/quotes/bl_q_RHeinlein.htm
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi [burden of proof] rests on the theist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"To abolish vice, establish virtue. To establish virtue, enshrine thought. To enshrine thought, identify its relationship to reality.
Leonard Peikoff
Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
That's one of the wonderful things about this great nation of ours...everybody is free to do what he wants to do...as long as it doesn't injure anybody else!
Stan Lee
"The Raving Maniac," Suspense #29, March, 1953
"...All my interests were concentrated on political activity or study. By then I was a graduate student and all my courses were in politics. I went to a lot of meetings and was out every night, mostly to do with politics. I'd found something I was really interested in and that totally absorbed me. From 1973 on I was also earning a living at it, as a junior lecturer, and enjoying that. It was all very fulfilling.
Helen Clark
Head and Shoulders: Successful New Zealand Women Talk to Virginia Meyers.
Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I had to call my own bluff.
Sylvester Stallone
Sly had the choice of taking $300,000 for the Rocky screenplay and walking away, or risking everything to also star in the movie. He called his own bluff and got both.
I’m the President and I’ll do whatever I goddamned please. They don’t know shit.
George W. Bush
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/printer_7267.shtml
... actually, I think I may have lost my train of thought there. But don’t run with pointy, shitty sticks, okay?
Fraser Stephen-Smith
Article, SOLOHQ
The only real security is not insurance or money or a job, not a house and furniture paid for, or a retirement fund, and never is it another person. It is the skill and humor and courage within, the ability to build your own fires and find your own peace.
Audrey Sutherland
"He secured from a Saudi sheik named Hamid bin Fahd a rather long treatise on the possibility of using nuclear weapons against the Americans. Specifically, nuclear weapons," says Scheuer. "And the treatise found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans." Scheuer says the fatwa was issued in May 2003, "and that's another thing that doesn't come to the attention of the American people."
Steve Kroft, in an interview with ex-CIA official Scheuer, an expert on Osama bin Laden
CBS News, August 21, 2005
No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand.
G'Kar
The Long, Twilight Struggle - Babylon 5 Season 2
Begging hands and bleeding hearts will only cry out for more.
Rush
Anthem
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them.
Thomas Paine
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!
Benjamin Franklin
The idea of universal rights—the idea of rights that are universal to all people because they correspond to our natures as human beings, not to where we live or what our cultural background is—is an incredibly important one. This belief is being challenged by apostles of cultural relativism who refuse to accept that such rights exist. If you look at those who employ this idea, it turns out to be Robert Mugabe, the leaders of China, the leaders of Singapore, the Taliban, Ayatollah Khomeini. It is a dangerous belief that everything is relative and therefore these people should be allowed to kill because it’s their culture to kill.
Salman Rushdie
Salman Rushdie
There is only one reason I could accept for building anything but the Twin Towers and that is if it were the will of the people — and it is not.
Margaret Donovan
www.Rebuild-the-Towers.org
Did you ever meet these rehab people? I liked them better when they were drunks! When they're drunk, they just ask you to buy them a drink. Now they've got to tell you how happy they are, how they found God ... then they've got to give you a test to see if you're an alcoholic: ... 'Do you ever find yourself looking forward to a drink? Hmmmmmm?' What kind of test is this? I look forward to eating. Does that make me a food addict? I look forward to sex. Does that make me a sex addict? I'll be honest with you: Sometimes I look forward to taking a big shit! Does that make me a shitaholic?
Jeff Wayne
It's OK To Be a White Male Comedy CD
She was a great man whose only fault was in being a woman.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Commenting on scientist Emilie du Chatelet
Lindsay, While you know I value polite conversation and have taken you to task on several occasions for being less than...diplomatic, I'm starting to see your point of view. While I'll never sanction insulting people who don't deserve it, I take back any and all recriminations for dealing with assholes in as blunt terms as possible. You have my apologies
Ethan Dawe
http://solohq.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/0939_6.shtml#131
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