Category: Friday Quote

Don’t let people convince you that principles only matter when the outcome is in your favor. Principles matter especially, and really only when the outcome is not in your favor.

A strong marriage rarely has two strong people at the same time. It is a husband and wife who take turns being strong for each other in the moments when the other feels weak.

This week I celebrate four years being married to the most wonderful woman in the world.

Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose, free to choose my teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself.

What Marx observed was that capital tended to accumulate in the hands of fewer and fewer people. And he said that’s a flaw of the capitalist system.

That’s wrong. It’s not the flaw of the capitalist system. It’s a feature of every single system that we know of no matter who set it up and how it operates.

The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.

Regardless of what you think about the Russo-Ukrainian War, one cannot deny the sheer badassness of that quote.

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ – this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

The monopolized education system is by now as much of a problem as the monopolized protection and justice system. In fact, government education and research and development is the central instrument by which the State protects itself from public resistance.

Man is not a rational animal; he is a rationalizing animal.

You are what you do, not what you say you will do.

Dying societies accumulate laws like dying men accumulate remedies