Jefferson: When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. True. And what about when people fear the loss of government redistribution to force others to pay some or all of … Continue reading
A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and links, … Continue reading
You don’t look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. — Alan Watts Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach DE). Get up-to-the-minute postings, recommended articles and … Continue reading
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. Joseph Campbell Be sure to “friend” Dr. Hurd on Facebook. Search under “Michael Hurd” (Rehoboth Beach … Continue reading
Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place. — Frederic Bastiat … Continue reading
“When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like? In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank … Continue reading
“There’s no such thing as addiction. There’s only things that you enjoy doing MORE than life.” — comedian Doug Stanhope, “Before Turning the Gun on Myself” Showtime (2012) In a world gone mad, it takes a comedian to tell … Continue reading
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