 Please don't feed the trolls
Adam Reed
Everywhere
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world was here first.
Mark Twain
Civility in the face of evil is no virtue; rage in the face of nihilism is no vice.
Lindsay Perigo
From his essay "This Boy's Not For Turning."
You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice. You can choose from phantom fears and kindness that can kill. I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose Free Will.
Rush
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by the dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly; so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Theodore Roosevelt
How would you feel if you lived on an island populated, apart from yourself, exclusively by retarded, malicious chimpanzees? Well, that's how I feel. Don't laugh, because your'e one of those retarded, malicious chimpanzees.
Arthur Jones
The less things change, the more they stay the same.
R. D. Reynolds
Wrestlecrap: the very worst of professional wrestling
Israel has never been in such a state of retreat and weakness as it is today following more than four years of the intifada. Hamas's heroic attacks exposed the weakness and volatility of the impotent zionist security establishment. The withdrawal marks the end of the zionist dream, and is a sign of the moral and psychological decline of the Jewish state.
Ahmed al-Bahar, a leading Hamas official in Gaza
Beswick took over ... in a flurry of MBA jargon ... which ended up defeating us. There were executive summaries, flow charts, key accounts, spread sheets, listener psychographics, membership marketing plans, and strategic alliances -- all of which, in the end, amounted to bullshit.
Deborah Coddington
Page 131 of Perigo! Politically Incorrect
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson
Investor Words Quote of the Day http://www.investorwords.com
'When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.'
Albert Einstein
http://www.physlink.com/
The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.
Adam Smith
The Wealth of Nations, Book II Chapter III
"I think a single man can accomplish in a day what a committee could accomplish in a month."
Bill Lear [Lear Aircraft]
Hey, fellas: there's something out there that electrocutes people on beaches, collapses buildings like cardboard, and drowns ships and villages. It's called nature. The next time the western horizon flames with crimson, remember that this is what Foucault never saw. Foucault was struck down by the elemental force he repressed and edited out of his system. Science, disdained by Foucaldians, is our only hope for controlling the retrovirus and marauding infections of AIDS. Science and society are our frail barriers against the turbulence of cruel, indifferent nature.
Camille Paglia
from the essay "Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders," in her book Sex, Art, and American Culture.
Today, at the news conference announcing his new position as head coach of the National Hockey League's Phoenix Coyotes, the best player to play the game and part owner of the franchise, Wayne Gretzky made two statements replete with pride in both his abilities and property, as well as integrity in his actions:
1. "I wasn't naturally gifted with size or speed. Everything I did in hockey, I worked for. And that's the way I'll be as a coach."
2. "I have an investment in the team, an ownership stake in this team and I felt like I was the best person to coach this team."
Wayne Gretzky
http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=132749
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Alone, adj. In bad company.
Ambrose Bierce
The Devil's Dictionary
"As long as you assume that you are making the weather, what can you do? You will try in vain to make good weather and you will never succeed, and because you are all the time angry at yourself for making rain, you will never invent an umbrella."
Carl Jung
Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathrustra
Man rises above the perceptual level by integrating his percepts into concepts, his concepts into principles, his principles into sciences, and all of his sciences into a philosophy.
Ayn Rand
(The Art of Non-Fiction, p.27)
The sophistry of passion outweighs all that reason can urge.
Robert Ingersoll
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Mortimer J. Adler
Jody, you asked James: "Then what exactly is your quarrel James?" Here is the response he attempted to post, but his posts are not being accepted (nor are mine):
Barbara Branden
private email
Some claim that majoritarianism, despite its faults, is an alternative preferable to physical conflict. They're wrong: majoritarianism is physical conflict. Elections are a process of counting fists, rather than noses, and saying, 'We outnumber — we could beat you up and kill you — you might as well give in and save everyone a lot of trouble.' Majoritarianism, to put it straightforwardly, possesses the full measure of nobility manifested by any other form of extortion.
L. Neil Smith
"PIZZACRACY: Majoritarianism Versus Unanimous Consent""
"The meek shall inherit the Earth. The rest of us will travel to the stars."
Michael Marotta
THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN BILLION Discussion
Did you know that you need a vocabulary at least 10 times larger for thinking than you do for talking?
Anonymous
http://www.thelatinroad.com/
You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place of worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed - that has nothing to do with the business of the State.
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Founder of Pakistan in 1947.
"Don't throw away wisdom because it is found in the company of folly; but do not say that folly is wisdom because it is found in its company."
Robert Ingersoll
There are no niggers; there are only black-skinned people whom some white-skinned people don't like and call "niggers." There are no Christ-killers; there are only Jews whom some Christians don't like and call "Christ-killers." Similarly, there are no addicts; there are only people who take some drugs which some other people think they should not take and who therefore call them "addicts."
Thomas S. Szasz
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplacable spark. In the hopeless swamps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all, do not let the hero in your soul perish and leave only frustration for the life you deserved, but never have been able to reach. The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute.
Ayn Rand
Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would 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
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
Andre Maurois
Andre Maurois, French writer
A can't change the laws of physics.
James Doohan as Scotty
Star Trek, "The Naked Time," 1966
Bush said he has considered candidates from all walks of life for the Supreme Court but refused to tip his hand on whom he will name, when he will do it or whether he wants to replace retiring O'Connor.
President George W. Bush
Yahoo
After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
William S. Burroughs
Industry need not wish.
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard's Almanac, 1739
There have always been people without judgment but this is the first era in which being non-judgmental is considered good -- though how anything can be considered good if you are non-judgmental is another puzzle.
Thomas Sowell
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20050714.shtml
A superstitious man suspects everything that is pleasant. It seems inbred in his nature, and in the nature of most people. You let such a man pull up a little weed and taste it, and if it is sweet and good, he says, "I'll bet it is poison." But if it tastes awful, so that his face becomes a mask of disgust, he says, "I'll bet you that it is good medicine."
Robert Ingersoll
"A product can be banned because legislatures don't like it, or because you get a majority vote," said Eugene Volokh, law professor at UCLA. "In some states, they ban the sale of horse meat, not because horses have a right to life, but just because the government thinks it's icky. There is no constitutional right to eat what you like or sell what you want to sell."
Eugene Volokh
Court TV; http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=99&e=2&u=/ct/20050708/cr_ct/potflavoredpopsahitwithcandyloversbutnotlawmakers
All the doctors who warned me not to smoke or drink died long ago.
Jean Sibelius
Famous Finnish composer who lived to the age of 91.
In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangel, Leonard da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace. And what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.
Harry Lime
Spoken by Orson Welles "The Third Man"
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
George Bernard Shaw
Government by Bullies [A chapter from "A Treatise on Parents and Children"]
I think they would have particularly liked rap music. It has the sort of effect Neanderthals would have enjoyed.
Steven Mithen
The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language and the Mind.
Every place outside of the USA is an absolute hellhole. As much as we can complain about the US's lack of freedom, I just can't stand when they force women to dress like BATMAN, when they leave little girls out to die. I mean, at least we address the issues of equality and freedom, which are not even addressed in a place like Egypt or China or India.Other countries are pieces of s**t, so they have a holier-than-thou attitude. I think the most insulting thing you can say about anybody is that they're more popular in another country.
Penn Jillette
Contact Music.com
Never underestimate the wrath of a patient man.
Anonymous
Religion has been the driving force behind the anti-choice laws, the opposition to stem-cell research, the opposition to gay rights and state-church separation. ... Some people call Atheism a 'radical' idea and it is. Radical means 'root' and Atheism addresses the root cause of the issues we struggle.
Ellen Johnson
Public Statement from American Atheists
[On what he called 'The Slacker State'] I don't want to have my money scalped off me to maintain other people's children. I don't like other people; I particularly don't like their children; I deeply disapprove of their proliferation making the globe uninhabitable. The fucking idiots - I don't want to pay for their fucking.
A.L. Rowse
http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/biography/0,6121,935394,00.html
Therefore a wise prince ought to adopt such a course that his citizens will always in every sort and kind of circumstance have need of the state and of him, and then he will always find them faithful.
Nicolo Machiavelli
http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext98/tprnc11.txt
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
Unknown Author
Unknown
There is only one meaning of life: the act of living itself.
Erich Fromm
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