Meaningful Quotes

Punishment 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

"It only stands to reason that where there is sacrifice, there is someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there is service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master." Ayn Rand

Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society's virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that is does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot.
—Ayn Rand

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
—Ayn Rand

Awesome Ayn Rand quotes Larry.

My brother picked a fight with me when he emailed "Ohh, I'm reading The Fountainhead again to see what makes these republicans tick." I could send him any of your Rand quotes but what good would it do. Not really fighting with him currently, better leave it that way
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Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Lao Tzu

Dann757 wrote:Awesome Ayn Rand quotes Larry.

Even more awesome when one considers that they date back to the 1940's through the 1960's. She was a true visionary, through the power of logic and reason, and not through any mystical means.

I would rather die on my feet than live on my knees.

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

Socialism is the redistribution of poverty. Don't know who said it first but it rings true to me.

coalkirk wrote:Socialism is the redistribution of poverty. Don't know who said it first but it rings true to me.

That reminds me of Margret Thatcher's saying that "The trouble with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other peoples money."

Bush: “I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system”

Obama: " I'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half, by the end of my first term in office." ~ 2009.

"Move as fast as you can accurately shoot, as slow as you have to"

"The problem with quotes on the internet, is that it is hard to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln

Money can't buy you love but it will buy something so close you will never tell the difference. - coalnewbie

mozz wrote:"The problem with quotes on the internet, is that it is hard to verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln