Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2017-06-19 Jun 19, 2017The meaning ascribed in popular usage to the word 'selfishness' is not merely wrong: it represents a devastating intellectual 'package-deal,' which is responsible, more than any other single factor, for the arrested moral development of mankind.~ Ayn RandNever — and I mean never — blindly trust the statistics you read [or hear] about the economy.~ Don LuskinThe law of progress holds that everything now must be better than what was there before. Don’t you see if you want something better, and better, and better, you lose the good. The good is no longer even being measured.~ Hannah Arendt Jun 16, 2017Everything you read in the press is absolutely true. Except the rare event of which you have personal knowledge.~ Erwin KnollIf you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.~ Mark TwainYou shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone.~ Will Rogers Jun 15, 2017Far from failing in its intended task, our educational system is in fact succeeding magnificently, because its aim is to keep the American people thoughtless enough to go on supporting the system.~ Richard MitchellMost people are willing to pay more to be amused than to be educated.~ Robert C. SavagePerhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.~ Sheldon Richman Jun 14, 2017Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.~ Gilbert Keith ChestertonThe sooner we all learn to make a decision between disapproval and censorship, the better off society will be... Censorship cannot get at the real evil, and it is an evil in itself.~ Granville HicksThe right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as an individual. It derives from the widely accepted premise of Western thought that the proper end of man is the realization of his character and potentialities as a human being.~ Thomas I. Emerson Jun 13, 2017A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.~ Abraham LincolnI think that prohibition of drugs is the most immoral program that the United States has ever engaged in. It's destroyed civil rights at home and it is responsible for thousands of deaths abroad.~ Milton Friedman 'Extremism' is a word deliberately chosen for its vagueness and used by intellectual slobs who are too desperate, sneaky or lazy to say exactly what they mean. Its only purpose is to deliberately try to confuse the difference between people who are extremely good (usually because of devotion to their principles) with people who are extremely bad. The sleazeballs who use this supposedly scary, yet undefined word are not only trying to smear people of conviction and integrity, but they're also trying to divert attention away from the fact that they are obviously not people of principle themselves.~ Rick Gaber Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print