 Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Ayn Rand
http://www.InvestorWords.com Quote of the Day November 29, 2004
"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"
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
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of a conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.
Ayn Rand
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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
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
Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.
Joseph Stalin
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
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
"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?
Hey, I got a question for you. Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that he himself could not eat it?
Homer Simpson
"The Simpsons"
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged
There should be no subject about which you cannot make jokes.
Rowan Aktinkson
"I was born modest, but it wore off."
Mark Twain
Hal Holbrook's "Mark Twain Tonight" show
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
Man and Superman
Liberty is the Mother, not the Daughter, of Order.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
Lin Yutang
Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
Thomas Jefferson
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle
Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death.
Rosalind Russell
as Mame Dennis in Auntie Mame
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. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Marianne Williamson
Prostitution is the abortion of romance.
Newberry
Christmas is a time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Jesus Christ.
Bart Simpson
Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.
Aristotle
“The Tragedy is that every brain cell devoted to belief in the supernatural is a brain cell one cannot use to make life richer or easier or happier.”
Kay Nolte Smith
Women Without Superstitions: No Gods, No Masters
Religion is a smile on a dog.
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians
"What I Am"
We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
Aristotle
To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.
Aristotle
In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power.. Green Lantern's light!
Green Lantern
1943, credited to Alfred Bester
I like a man who grins when he fights.
Winston Churchill
[Events like the recent tsunami] mock the notion that human beings should live in harmony with nature. When did nature ever live in harmony with us? The natural world can be wondrous in its beauty and mystery, but it is not our friend. It is a pervasive, relentless threat to our mere existence, and often, that threat is carried out. The story of civilization is the story of humanity's progress in subduing, exploiting, and overcoming nature for the benefit of ordinary people.
Steve Chapman
Chicago Tribune 12/30/04 (via Dr. Hurd.com)
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
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
Atlas Shrugged
[T]he Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind. They can say what they want to say...[T]hey shouldn't have their feelings hurt just because some people don't want to buy their records when they speak out...[F]reedom is a two-way street...I...don't really care what the Dixie Chicks said. I want to do what I think is right for the American people, and if some singers or Hollywood stars feel like speaking out, that's fine. That's the great thing about America. It stands in stark contrast to Iraq...
President George W. Bush
Wikipedia quote of a President Bush interview with Tom Brokaw April 24th 2003 following uproar over anti Iraq war comments by Dixie Chicks band member Natalie Maines
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Groucho Marx
You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think.
Elbert Hubbard
I'm afraid I place a certain value on my life, which prevents my being wholeheartedly concerned with the fate of the world."
Odkin
Wallace Wood, The Wizard King Trilogy, Book One: The King of the World
Fortune favors the brave.
Virgil
Aeneid
You are what your deep, driving desire is. As your desire is, so is your will. As your will is, so is your deed. As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
IV.4.5
Every man should use the intellect...as the lighthouse uses its lamps, that those afar off on the sea may see the shining, and learn their way.
Henry Ward Beecher
I was sitting outside the -- the classroom, waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower of a -- of a -- you know, the TV was obviously on, and I -- I used to fly myself, and I said, "Well, there's one terrible pilot."
President George W. Bush
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/liar.htm
So they go on in strange paradox, decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
Winston Churchill
Speech, November 12, 1936
From my childhood, obedience was something I could not get out of my system. When I entered the armed service at the age of twenty-seven, I found being obedient not a bit more difficult than it had been during my life to that point. It was unthinkable that I would not follow orders. Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one’s need to think.
Adolf Eichmann
Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt (286)
... we have to abridge individual rights, change the societal conditions, and act in ways that heretofore were not in accordance with our values and traditions, like giving a police officer or security official the right to search you without a judicial finding of probable cause.
General Patrick M. Hughes
Congressional Quarterly, Oct. 27, 2004
Be sure you're right, then go ahead.
David Crockett, Congressman 1827-35
Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.
Aristotle
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans
John Winston Ono Lennon
John Lennon, Beautiful Boy
Being all on fire is not just being emphatic and deliberately passionate, it is not just being extremely principled, it is going out and actively molding the world to one's principles.
Jeff Landauer
"All On Fire"
"Between government in the republican meaning, that is, Constitutional, representative, limited government, on the one hand, and Empire on the other hand, there is mortal enmity. Either one must forbid the other or one will destroy the other."
Garet Garrett
The second-hander acts, but the source of his actions is scattered in every other living person. It’s everywhere and nowhere and you can’t reason with him. He’s not open to reason. You can’t speak to him—he can’t hear. You’re tried by an empty bench.
Ayn Rand
The Fountainhead
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