Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-09-03 Sep 3, 2013If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.~ Harry S. TrumanOnly the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.~ H. Beam PiperIt doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.~ H. L. Mencken Sep 2, 2013America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.~ Alex EpsteinThe secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.~ Ayn RandThe Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.~ Vladimir Ilyich Lenin Aug 30, 2013We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.~ Hillary ClintonIf it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?~ Robert Anton WilsonRepublicans don't know how to defend morally an individual's right to achieve wealth and to keep it, and that is why they fail. ... It's part and parcel with their ambivalence over the individualist heritage of the nation. ... One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society. Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, this life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique. People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place.~ Robert Bidinotto Aug 29, 2013To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole.~ Joseph Paul GoebbelsComrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all.~ Nikita KhrushchevThe Nazis are well remembered for murdering well over 11 million people in the implementation of their slogan, 'The public good before the private good,' the Chinese Communists for murdering 62 million people in the implementation of theirs, 'Serve the people,' and the Soviet Communists for murdering more than 60 million people in the implementation of Karl Marx's slogan, 'from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.' Anyone who defends any of these, or any variation of them, on the grounds of their 'good intentions' is an immoral (NOT 'amoral') enabler of the ACTUAL (not just the proverbial) road to hell.~ Rick Gaber Aug 28, 2013There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.~ George SantayanaOne byproduct of individualism is benevolence -- a general attitude of good will towards one's neighbors and fellow human beings. Benevolence is impossible in a society where people violate each others' rights.~ Glenn WoiceshynThus, individualism is not antithetical to community. Rather, it can involve free association and a belief in an over-arching harmony of interests. In a free socety, individuals join with others because of love and mutual benefit, not because they are programmed or coerced.~ Prof. Clifford Thies Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print