Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-09-10 Sep 10, 2018The skeptic does not mean him who doubts, but him who investigates or researches, as opposed to him who asserts and thinks he has found.~ Miguel de Unamuno y JugoHypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.~ MolièreNeither your life nor my life, nor the future of this country, will be affected in the slightest by whether Linda Tripp is naughty or nice. But if any president is able to commit crimes with impunity by using the vast powers and perquisites of his office to cover up, then we will have a danger of corruption and abuse of power that can only grow with the passing years and generations.~ Thomas Sowell Sep 7, 2018To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.~ Eric HofferFreedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.~ Germaine GreerThe state spends much time and effort persuading the public that it is not really what it is and that the consequences of its actions are positive rather than negative.~ Hans Hermann Hoppe Sep 6, 2018Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.~ Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.~ Francois MauriacNo one understood better than Stalin that the true object of propaganda is neither to convince nor even to persuade, but to produce a uniform pattern of public utterance in which the first trace of unorthodox thought immediately reveals itself as a jarring dissonance.~ Leonard Schapiro Sep 5, 2018If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.~ Cardinal RichelieuLawyers [are] operators of the toll bridge across which anyone in search of justice has to pass.~ Jane Bryant QuinnThe test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity.~ Jon Roland Sep 4, 2018Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.~ Doris LessingThe career of a politician mainly consists in making one part of the nation do what it does not want to do, in order to please and satisfy the other part of the nation. It is the prolonged sacrifice of the rights of some persons at the bidding and for the satisfaction of other persons. The ruling idea of the politician - stated rather bluntly - is that those who are opposed to him exist for the purpose of being made to serve his ends, if he can get power enough in his hands to force these ends upon them.~ Auberon HerbertThe nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.~ George Orwell Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print