Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2012-07-28 Jul 27, 2012Everything is backwards; everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the major media destroy information, and religions destroy spirituality.~ Michael EllnerMost of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.~ Mignon McLaughlinThe first gold star a child gets in school for the mere performance of a needful task is its first lesson in graft.~ Philip Wylie Jul 26, 2012Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!~ Albert EinsteinThere comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience.~ Hartley ShawcrossJustice, being violated, destroys; justice, being preserved, preserves: therefore, justice must not be violated, lest violated justice destroy us.~ Manusmriti Jul 25, 2012The poor people, it is true, have been much less successful than the great. They have seldom found either leisure or opportunity to form a union and exert their strength; ignorant as they were of arts and letters, they have seldom been able to frame and support a regular opposition. This, however, has been known by the great to be the temper of mankind; and they have accordingly labored, in all ages, to wrest from the populace, as they are contemptuously called, the knowledge of their rights and wrongs, and the power to assert the former or redress the latter. I say RIGHTS, for such they have, undoubtedly, antecedent to all earthly government, Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws, Rights, derived from the great Legislator of the universe.~ John AdamsSelf-reliance is the only road to true freedom, and being one's own person is its ultimate reward.~ Patricia SampsonI never could believe that Providence had sent a few men into the world, ready booted and spurred to ride, and millions ready saddled and bridled to be ridden.~ Richard Rumbold Jul 24, 2012By pursuing his own interest [every individual] frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.~ Adam SmithThe work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind forward.~ Igor SikorskyThe problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone, and remain as free as before.~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau Jul 23, 2012Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.~ Lucius Annaeus SenecaI will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.~ John Enoch PowellHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch Spinoza Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print