Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-09-19 Sep 19, 2018We know what a person thinks, not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.~ Isaac Bashevis SingerEvery nation gets the government it deserves.~ Joseph de MaistreTo pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.~ Lao-Tzu Sep 18, 2018Video meliora, proboque; Deteriora sequor. (I see the better way, and approve it; I follow the worse.)~ OvidThe worst of all deceptions is self-deception.~ PlatoWe have met the enemy and he is us.~ Walt Kelly Sep 17, 2018Although the legal and ethical definitions of right are the antithesis of each other, most writers use them as synonyms. They confuse power with goodness, and mistake law for justice.~ Charles T. SpradingThe ultimate result of protecting fools from their folly is to fill the planet full of fools.~ James Russell LowellAlas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?~ Jean-Baptiste Say Sep 14, 2018Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.~ Pierre-Joseph ProudhonMany politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.~ Thomas Babington MacaulayWhat are the moral convictions most fondly held by barbarous and semi-barbarous people? They are the convictions that authority is the soundest basis of belief; that merit attaches to readiness to believe; that the doubting disposition is a bad one, and skepticism is a sin.~ Thomas Henry Huxley Sep 13, 2018What you do speaks so loud I cannot hear what you say.~ Abraham LincolnThe State, both in its genesis and by its primary intention, is purely anti-social. It is not based on the idea of natural rights, but on the idea that the individual has no rights except those that the State may provisionally grant him. It has always made justice costly and difficult of access, and has invariably held itself above justice and common morality whenever it could advantage itself by so doing.~ Albert Jay NockThe house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in, and ready at any instant to fall.~ A. E. Housman Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print