 "The only people who could ever fire me are the American People. If they don't want to hear me any more they won't buy my books, they won't read my columns. 
Ann Coulter
Is It True What They Say About Ann?
A touchstone to determine the actual worth of an "intellectual" -find out how he feels about astrology
Robert A. Heinlein
Excerpt from the Notebooks of Lazurus Long
I have an accent when I speak. I do not have an accent, when I think.
Ricardo Valenzuela
speech given before the Eris Society, 2004
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
It is fascinating to watch politicians come up with "solutions" to problems that are a direct result of their previous solutions. In many cases, the most efficient thing to do would be to repeal their previous solution and stop being so gung-ho for creating new solutions in the future. But, politically, that is the last thing they will do.
Thomas Sowell
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4044
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If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a co-ordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued, and the adjustment of the boundaries between it and social control would present no extraordinary difficulty. But the evil is, that individual spontaneity is hardly recognised by the common modes of thinking, as having any intrinsic worth, or deserving any regard on its own account. The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot comprehend why those ways should not be good enough for everybody; and what is more, spontaneity forms no part of the ideal of the majority of moral and social reformers, but is rather looked on with jealousy, as a troublesome and perhaps rebellious obstruction to the general acceptance of what these reformers, in their own judgment, think would be best for mankind.
John Stuart Mill
On Liberty
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of a conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
Winston Churchill
"A political machine feeds on patronage and power and is a natural enemy of people who preach independence. The key words in machine politics are loyalty and obedience.''
Mike Royko
"Mike Royko: One More Time"
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
http://www.InvestorWords.com Quote of the Day November 29, 2004
Oh, on another note, I find it interesting that an avowed Pagan hedonist is more tolerated here than a Catholic or Christian. Why is that?
Byron Garcia
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau
Walden (1854)
When the judgment’s weak, the prejudice is strong.
Kane O'Hara
With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil—that takes religion.
Steven Weinberg
A Designer Universe?
In the post-election climate, reason needs to be defended from the right-wing "moral values" zealots; but it also needs to be defended from the left-wing fearmongers who act as if we were one executive order away from a Taliban-like theocracy.
Cathy Young
"Dumb and Dumberer," Reason Online, http://www.reason.com/cy/cy112304.shtml
Live for yourself or live for God. You can't have it both ways. It's one or the other!
Anonymous
Sign in front of a local "Church of Christ"
Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.
Anton Chekhov
People are saying 'We want good toilets!' because toilets are a basic human right and that basic human right has been neglected. The world deserves better toilets.
Jack Sim, Founder, World Toilet Organization
USA Today (http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2004-11-17-toilet-summit_x.htm)
Money, which represents the prose of life, and is hardly spoken of in parlors without apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Investor Words Quote of the Day -- http://www.investorwords.com
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lesson? Boobs are worse than killing. Thanks Jesus. You prick. : P
Jeremy Johnson
the "Saving Private Ryan" thread
Kant . . . united typically within himself the best features of the Enlightenment
Wilhelm Windelband
A HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL. II, p. 532.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire
Lyrically it’s about thinking for yourself. As the title implies that doesn’t mean reject everything people tell you, but always question things so you can find your true path. Inspired partly by Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. A quote from that book, “Notice how they’ll accept anything except a man who stands alone.”
Nick Hexum
www.311.com - Talking about the band's song "Reconsider Everything" from their album "Evolver"
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"If the truth about a person's own agenda is unpleasant and toxic to them and everyone else, then it makes no real sense for any of us to suffer through that in silence like a good boy, so that the damaging parties can continue on their merry ways, with no feedback discomfort while they try to guilt others into doing so. They should have a mirror held up to themselves, so that they have to face their true ugliness and destructiveness. It's called "a-c-c-o-u-n-t-a-b-i-l-i-t-y", and all people of quality choose it as a course of life"
Orion Reasoner
SOLO
The MUSLIMS are actually KILLING INNOCENT PEOPLE all over the WORLD, and I'm not! Why the Hell aren't THEY being called "genocidists", but I am?!
Orion Reasoner
Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything. Let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly and we're not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto him by the nose and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick the hell out of him all the time and we're going to go through him like crap through a goose.
George S. Patton
George C. Scott as PATTON
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Henry Ward Beecher
According to the dominant voices of her press, America, too, has a vanguard of young rebels, dissenters and fighters for freedom. Marching down the aisle of a theater, they shout their protest to the world: "I cannot travel without a passport!... I am not allowed to smoke marijuana!... I am not allowed to take my clothes off!"
Ayn Rand
The "Inexplicable Personal Alchemy"
First they came for the Communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me.
Rev, Martin Niemoller
" A warrior would rather be defeated and killed than to be forced to act against his nature."
Unknown Author
Taylor in POLTERGEIST 2
A woman narrows a man's heart. The marriage of a friend usually means the loss of a friend.
Kant
Remarks
...why is it that the people who worry most about mankind have the least concern for any actual human being?
Adrienne Knowland
Ayn Rand, " Think Twice," The Early Ayn Rand
I sit with Shakespeare and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm in arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed earth and the tracery of the stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the Veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America? Is this the life you long to change into the dull red hideousness of Georgia? Are you so afraid lest peering from this high Pisgah, between Philistine and Amalekite, we sight the Promised Land?
W. E. B. DuBois
The Souls of the Black Folk
"Never let your 'morals' prevent you from doing what is right."
Isaac Asimov
Salvor Hardin in FOUNDATION by Isaac Asimov
As the old saying goes "you can lead a horse to water, but ya can't make 'em drink". As long as they're a PEACEFUL nation that hates us, it's better THAT, than a VIOLENT nation with weapons that hates us.
Russell Kay
SOLO Forum: http://www.solohq.com/Forum/GeneralForum/0247.shtml#4
It's always best on these occasions to do what the mob do..." "But suppose there are two mobs?" suggested Mr. Snodgrass. "Shout with the largest", replied Mr. Pickwick.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Pickwick Papers, 13, 1837
Mobs must be faced if civilization is to be saved.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Preface ("The alternative to Barabbas") to ANDROCLES AND THE LION, 1912
I am persuaded that it is best to move on (and at rate a number of the points I would have made in a lengthier response have already been made by other posters).
Matthew Humphreys
forum post at Solo
It’s time we face the threat of Islam. It’s not just the multi-cultural, politically-correct Left that has this problem; conservatives have a difficulty understanding the threat of this barbaric, unreformed religion.
Jason Pappas
SOLO HQ forum: http://www.solohq.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/0310.shtml#1
It’s time we face the threat of Islam. It’s not just the multi-cultural politically-correct Left that has this problem; conservatives have a difficulty understand the threat of this barbaric, unreformed religion.
Jason Pappas
SOLO HQ forum: http://www.solohq.com/Forum/NewsDiscussions/0310.shtml#1
Good Lord... I've heard about this: CAT JUGGLING! Stop! Stop! Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Good.... Father, could there be a God that would let this happen?
Steve Martin
The Jerk (1979)
Well then, fuck off.
Lindsay Perigo
Lindsay Perigo
This Election Day...we should reject those who wish to reduce our republic to mob rule. Instead, we should vote for those, to whatever extent they can be found, who are defenders of the essence of America: individual freedom.
Alex Epstein
"The Meaning of the Right to Vote", Ayn Rand Institute op-ed, October 26, 2004
Not that I condone fascism, or any -ism for that matter. -Ism's in my opinion are not good. A person should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself. I quote John Lennon, "I don't believe in The Beatles, I just believe in me." Good point there. After all, he was the walrus. I could be the walrus and I'd still have to bum rides off of people.
John Hughes
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
"I find war repugnant. All wars. I know war's monstrous aspects: blood and corpses everywhere, hungry refugees, devastated cities, orphans in tears and houses in ruins. I find no beauty in it. But it is with a heavy heart I ask this: what is to be done? Do we have the right not to intervene, when we know what passivity and appeasement will make possible?"
Elie Wiesel
Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self Reliance (1841)
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost
John Quincy Adams
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