The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Maximillian Robespierre, French politician during the Revolutionary period
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Laurel K. Hamilton
My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Laurell K. Hamilton, author
Friday Quote- Brian Cox
The problem with the world today is that everyone believes they have the right to express an opinion AND have others listen to it.
The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to express an opinion, but crucially, that opinion may be roundly ignored, even be made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably NONSENSE.
Friday Quote – John Wayne
When you allow unlawful acts to go unpunished, you’re moving toward a government of men rather than a government of law.
John Wayne
Or more to the point, selective enforcement of the law.
Friday Quote – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I’m optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren’t still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you’re in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for saying so.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
The marketplace of ideas is truly a wonderful thing.
Metal Tuesday Friday Quote – Penn Jillette
Sorry for the confusing title, but I was listening to Penn’s Sunday School on my way into work when he said this:
Manowar is like Spinal Tap, without the joke.
A perfect Friday Quote for a Metal Tuesday.
Friday Quote – Charleston Heston
Let me make a short opening statement. There are no good guns. There are no bad guns. Any gun in the hands of a bad man is a bad thing. Any gun in the hands of a decent person is no threat to anybody – except bad people.
Charleston Heston
Friday Quote – Penn Jillette
Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It’s just ganging up on the weird kid, and I’m always the weird kid.
Penn Jillette
Friday Quote – Steven Novella
When someone looks at me and says “I know what I saw,” I am fond of replying “No, you don’t.” You have a distorted and constructed memory of a distorted and constructed perception, both of which are subservient to whatever narrative your brain is operating under.
Dr. Steven Novella, neurosurgeon and skepticism advocate
Friday Quote – Ludwig Von Mises
If one rejects laissez faire on account of man’s fallibility and moral weakness, one must for the same reason reject every kind of government action.
Ludwig Von Mises