I’m not scared of the Maos and the Stalins and the Hitlers. I’m scared of the thousands or millions of people that hallucinate them to be the “authority” and so do their bidding, and build their empires, and carry out their orders. I don’t care if there’s one looney with a stupid mustache. He’s not a threat if the people do not believe in “authority.”
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote- Julian Assange
Nearly every war has started in the last fifty years has been a result of media lies. The media could have stopped it if they had searched deep enough, if they hadn’t reprinted government propaganda they could have stopped it.
Friday Quote – Robert Heinlein
Every so often some idiot tries to abolish marriage. Such attempts work as well as repealing the law of gravity, making pi equal to 3.0, or moving mountains by prayer. Marriage is not something thought up by priests and inflicted on mankind; marriage is as much a part of mankind’s evolutionary equipment as his eyes, and as useful to the race as eyes are to an individual.
Friday Quote – Leonard Peikoff
The universe is neutral; it simply is; it is indifferent to you. You must care about, and adapt to it, not the other way around. But reality is ‘benevolent’ in the sense that if you do adapt to it – i.e., if you do think, value, and act rationally, then you can (and barring accidents you will) achieve your values. You will, because those values are based in reality.
Friday Quote – Aldous Huxley
There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution.
Friday Quote- Springer
I’ve got better things to do tonight than die.
From here:
Which is 35 years old this week.
Friday Quote – Thomas Sowell
What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.
Friday Quote – Alex Nowrasteh
Our traditional openness to immigration is part of what makes America exceptional.
Friday Quote – Thomas Paine
Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins… Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Friday Quote – John Stuart Mills
But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth. If wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.