That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, the choice that controls all the … Continue reading
‘Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Thus the beneficiaries are spared the shame and danger that their acts would otherwise involve’ But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes … Continue reading
The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it. — Henry … Continue reading
Ayn Rand’s fictional character Dr. Hendricks, from her novel Atlas Shrugged. ‘I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,’ said Dr. Hendricks. ‘Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know … Continue reading
You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. –Jack London
‘The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-front for the urge to rule it.’ —H. L. Mencken
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. — John D. Rockefeller
They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves. –former U.S. … Continue reading
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury, and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt. — James Madison In 2012 terms: By forcing the productive … Continue reading
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to … Continue reading
What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. — Aristotle In other words: Private property is better than public … Continue reading