The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H.L Mencken
After all, how can people argue when you’re trying to save them from themselves?
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Learned Hand
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Learned Hand
The two quickest deaths of liberty in the hearts of the populace are “safety” and “convenience.”
Friday Quote – Learned Hand
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.
Learned Hand
The two quickest deaths of liberty in the hearts of the populace are “safety” and “convenience.”
Friday Quote – Susan B. Anthony
I declare to you that woman must not be dependent upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand.
Susan B. Anthony, women’s civil rights leader
Guns make women able to live without having to belong to a man to protect her. Technology makes women able to earn equitable livings.
If women wish to be free of male domination, then they should be embracing these things instead of eschewing them.
Friday Quote – Marko Kloos
Holding up paper signs with hashtags isn’t “doing something.” It’s demanding that someone else do something.
Marko Kloos, author
Like most symbolic gestures done by “progressives,” there’s no action that will actually solve the problem. Worse, it pretends there is an answer.
H/t Robb
Friday Quote – Samuel Beckett
Ever tried? Ever failed? No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
This is something I have to remember as patience and persistence aren’t part of my inborn virtues.
Friday Quote – Robert Heinlein
There is no worse tyranny than forcing a man to pay for what he does not want, merely because you think it would be good for him.
Robert A. Heinlein, author
Friday Quote – Ludwig Von Mises
There can be no freedom in arts and literature when the government determines who shall create them.
Ludwig Von Mises, economist
Government control, either through regulation or subsidies, does not free the artist to create, only to make him/her free to create the government-approved.
Friday Quote – Tim Minchin
Alternative medicine, by definition, has either not been proved to work or proved not to work. Do you know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine.
Tim Minchin, Storm
Here’s where that quote came from:
Friday Quote – George Orwell
Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.
George Orwell
Maybe this should be explained to the major networks (including Fox) that this applies to members of their same ideological bent.