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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:27:22 GMT 10
2 of 2:Men did not make the earth ... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds
It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once
It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them
It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself
I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto deathThomas Paine(Born this day 1737) It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:29:55 GMT 10
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice
Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs
A good upbringing means not that you won't spill sauce on the tablecloth, but that you won't notice it when someone else does
No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy
You must trust and believe in people or life becomes impossible
Only entropy comes easyAnton ChekhovRussian short-story writer, playwright and physician (Born this day 1860) Man is what he believes
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:31:28 GMT 10
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money
The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep
I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it
Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people
Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all badBro. WC FieldsAmerican comic actor ( My Little Chickadee) (Born this day 1880) It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:33:13 GMT 10
1 of 2:Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines
Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart
I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth
Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought Verified by experience. And then there is CaliforniaEdward AbbeyAmerican author and environmentalist (Born this day 1927) Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:34:44 GMT 10
2 of 2:Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell
Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion
Fantastic doctrines (like Christianity or Islam or Marxism) require unanimity of belief. One dissenter casts doubt on the creed of millions. Thus the fear and hate; thus the torture chamber, the iron stake, the gallows, the labor camp, the psychiatric ward
When the philosopher’s argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense
Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls
Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful
There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fuelled by greed
Edward Abbey (Born this day 1927)
Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:35:53 GMT 10
The surest guide to the correctness of the path that women take is joy in the struggle. Revolution is the festival of the oppressed
There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all
Man made one grave mistake: in answer to vaguely reformist and humanit- arian agitation he admitted women to politics and the professions. The con- servatives who saw this as the undermining of our civilization and the end of the state and marriage were right after all; it is time for the demolition to begin
The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of con- formism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well
English culture is basically homosexual in the sense that the men only really care about other men
Australia is a huge rest home, where no unwelcome news is ever wafted on to the pages of the worst newspapers in the world
The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enoughGermaine GreerAustralian-British writer, academic and journalist ( The Female Eunuch) (Born this day 1939) You're only young once, but you can be immature forever
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:36:54 GMT 10
The facts fairly and honestly presented; truth will take care of itself
A little learning is not a dangerous thing to one who does not mistake it for a great deal
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own … how much kinder, how much gentler he would be
If our colleges and universities do not breed men who riot, who rebel, who attack life with all the youthful vim and vigor, then there is something wrong with our colleges. The more riots that come on college campuses, the better world for tomorrow
I have tried to teach people there are three kicks in every dollar: one, when you make it; two, when you have it. The third kick is when you give it away — and it is the biggest kick of all
My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias
Liberty is the only thing you can't have unless you give it to othersWilliam Allen WhiteUS newspaper editor, politician and author ( The Old Order Changeth: A View of American Democracy) (Died this day 1944) Peace without justice is tyranny
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:38:05 GMT 10
I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough
It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are — not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within — that you can begin to take control
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment
For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out
I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoesOprah Winfrey, American TV talk show hostess (Born this day 1954) Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 29, 2014 7:39:03 GMT 10
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable
Archbishop — A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ
Honor is simply the morality of superior men
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public officeH.L. MenckenUS essayist, critic and satirist ( Smart Set) (Died this day 1956) If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 30, 2014 9:03:37 GMT 10
Thursday’s Quotes:Delay in justice is injustice
Great men always pay deference to greater
A man's vanity tells him what is honor, a man's conscience what is justice
Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him
Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce
An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof
There is nothing on earth divine except humanityWalter Savage LandorEnglish critic and writer ( Imaginary Conversation) (Born this day 1775) I strove with none; for none was worth my strife
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