“A criminal attack is always the fault of the attacker. The purpose of self defense is to limit your vulnerability to criminals, not to make you responsible for their bad actions.”
H/t – Kathy Jackson, ”The Cornered Cat” on FB
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Joe Halderman
Bad books on writing tell you to “write what you know”, a solemn and extremely false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery.
Friday Quote – Henry Hazlitt
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects – his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity.
Friday Quote – Ron Paul
The most important element of a free society is the rejection of the initiation of violence.
Friday Quote – Larry Reed
Making war on ideas is not far removed from making war on people because ideas possess no existence apart from the minds of people. Those who seek to kill ideas – rather than debate them, advance them, or debunk them – are killers of humanity.
Friday Quote – Georg Hegel
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Friday Quote – Yeonni Park
Individual liberty is everything in order to fulfil our own unique potential as individuals. We are equal but not the same, and that is a beautiful thing.
Friday Quote – Grant Phillips
For socialism to “function,” labor is confiscated from the worker under the guise of the common good. Socialism prohibits workers from defining and pursuing their individual good because their labor is required to provide a state-defined common good. Thus, even if an individual worker values a good differently than state-decree, his labor is still confiscated to provide the common good which he does not desire. That is exploitation.
Friday Quote – George Orwell
Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.
Friday Quote – Ian Watson
If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized… If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance – you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.