Category: Quote of the Day

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato

“In a free society, crimes would be limited to aggression against persons and property, including fraud. So-called “victimless crime” laws are incompatible with liberty.” – Ron Paul

“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. ‘I?m this way because my father made me this way. I?m this way because my husband made me this way.’ Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.” – Camille Paglia

“Small islands not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something very absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.” – Thomas Paine, in Common Sense

“Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other. And they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.” – Luke 9:6-11 (KJV)

“Now therefore, I pray thee, let thy servant abide instead of the lad a bondman to my lord; and let the lad go up with his brethren. For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.” – Genesis 44:33-34 (KJV)

“War is a way of shattering to pieces…materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable and… too intelligent.” – George Orwell

“You don’t drive an economy by consuming – the consumer is not the engine, the consumer is the caboose.” – Peter Schiff

“Soon enough we’ll be [labeled] anti-pedophile bigots, or “pedophobes” for short. That’s where it’s going.“ – ‘Ol Remus, in his blog Yer ‘Ol Woodpile Report

“This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.” – Plato

“Truth is treason in an empire of lies.” – George Orwell

“And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man’s wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.” – 1 Cor 2:1-5 (KJV)

“And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it. And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.” – Genesis 41:15-16 (KJV)

“Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone’s labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.” – Robert Nozick

“Two things are infinite, as far as we know – the universe and human stupidity.” – Albert Einstein