Category: Friday Quote

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

My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do I make any effort to differentiate between the other fellow right and the other fellow wrong, for I am convinced that free speech is worth nothing unless it includes a full franchise to be foolish and even … malicious.

Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway.

Stupidity is the same.

And that’s why life is hard.

A right is not something someone gives you – it’s something that no one can take away.