We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Category: Friday Quote
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.
Friday Quote – Sir Roger Scruton
It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on the intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since…it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.
Friday Quote – Randall Munroe
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space – each discovered, studied, remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
Friday Quote – Jordan Petersen
The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you’re even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the world a better place.
Friday Quote – Wyatt Earp
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
Friday Quote – Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.