I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations... I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be...
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Graham Greene
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
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Abraham Lincoln
Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.
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Robert E. Howard
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
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Peter Stone
You know what's truly weird about any financial crisis? We made it up. Currency, money, finance, they're all social inventions. When the sun comes up in the morning it's shining on the same physical landscape, all the atoms are in place.
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Bruce Sterling
More Quotes By Fairclough Norman
Hence the great irony: Hayek, one of the greatest champions of individual liberty and economic freedom the world has ever known, believed that knowledge was communal. Dewey, the champion of socialism and collectivism, believed that knowledge was individual. Hayek's is a philosophy that treats individuals...
If there is ever a fascist takeover in America, it will come not in the form of storm troopers kicking down doors but with lawyers and social workers saying. "I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.
[American] liberalism today sees no realm of human life that is beyond political significance, from what you eat to what you smoke to what you say.
I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin.
