Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2018-09-20 Sep 20, 2018[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously—after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important ... so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth.~ Robert A. HeinleinThe ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. ... These measures never fail to create great and violent jealousies and animosities between the people favored and the people oppressed...~ Benjamin FranklinAll the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.~ John Quincy Adams 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 Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print