Any community that gets its laughs by pretending to be idiots will eventually be flooded by actual idiots who mistakenly believe that they’re in good company.
Rene Descartes
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Carl Sagan
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan
Friday Quote- Rothbard
The man who puts all the guns and all of the decision-making in the hands of the central government and then says “Limit Yourself”; it is he who is truly the impractical utopian.
Rothbard
Friday Quote – Jack London
I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom in me a magnificent glow, then a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.
Jack London, author, personal credo
Friday Quote – Milton Friedman
The most important central fact about a free market is that no exchange takes place unless both parties benefit.
Milton Friedman
Friday Quote – Father Kevin Kealy
You cannot exaggerate about the Marines. They are convinced to the point of arrogance that they are the most ferocious fighters on earth – and the amusing thing about it is that they are.
Father Kevin Kealy, 1st Marine Division Chaplain, Korean War
Next week is the USMC birthday.
Happy birthday Marines. Semper Fi
Friday Quote- Richard Pryor
The reason people use a crucifix against vampires is that vampires are allergic to bullshit.
Richard Pryor, comedian
Friday Quote – Raylan Givens
This one’s a video:
H/t Tam
Friday Quote – F. A. Hayek
What we have to deal with in the case of “social justice†is simply a quasireligious superstition of the kind which we should respectfully leave in peace so long as it merely makes those happy who hold it, but which we must fight when it becomes the pretext of coercing other men.
F.A. Hayek
H/t reader David
Friday Quote – Louis Pasteur
Science advances through tentative answers to a series of more and more subtle questions which reach deeper and deeper into the essence of natural phenomena.
Louis Pasteur