Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2013-09-11 Sep 11, 2013Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields.~ Charles WagnerWe get lost in a fog of abstractions and easily forget that man is a bloodhound sniffing out the real.~ Robert C. PollockPunishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.~ Thomas Szasz Sep 10, 2013Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.~ Erik Pepke[There is a] strong correlation between market freedom and lower government corruption -- not terribly surprising, since the effect of increasing regulatory power is to shift 'cheating' from the private to the public sphere.~ Julian SanchezThe freedom to fail is vital if you’re going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.~ Michael Korda Sep 9, 2013Families would be in better shape if our tax code didn’t push married mothers who wish to raise their own children into the labor force, in large part to pay for a welfare state that encourages unskilled, unmarried teenagers to bear illegitimate children the rest of us must support.~ Lisa SchiffenWhen you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...~ W. Allen WallisA liberal's like to be laxWhen recommending a tax.With a glut in his heartAnd his brain low a quart,He will give youthe shirts off our backs.~ F. R. Duplantier Sep 6, 2013Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.~ Albert CamusFreedom in general may be defined as the absence of obstacles to the realization of desires.~ Bertrand RussellFreedom is risky. Nature makes no promises.~ Eric Schaub Sep 5, 2013My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there.~ Indira GandhiWithout law or compulsion, men would dwell in harmony.~ Lao-TzuMany academicians and self-styled intellectuals, with a habitually arrogant and condescending attitude, treat the rest of the world with contempt. These so-called 'intelligentsia' congratulate themselves for, not only having high IQs and lots of education in their particular fields, but for having achieved the allegedly momentus insight that free-market capitalism and altruism are ultimately incompatible (duh). Yet they're still too damned stupid to realize and too damned ignorant to acknowledge that altruism is NOT the only moral code available to mankind. (It is, in fact, the bloodiest and most regressive one of all). This stunted thinking has resulted in their committing the intellectual atrocity of rejecting the capitalism and freedom instead of the altruism and coercion.~ Rick Gaber Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print