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| Demographic Breach
The most profound breach in this country is not between the rich and the poor, but between the people and the intellectuals. In their view of life, the American people are predominantly...reality-oriented, common sense-oriented, technology-oriented. The intellectuals ...
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| Taking Responsibility
Today people aren't encouraged to take responsibility. It's easy to obey because you can blame a wrong decision on the person who told you to do this or do that. From the moment you accept that you're the master of your destiny you have to accept responsibility ...
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| Government Monopolies
When Government has a monopoly of all production and all distribution, as many Governments have, it can not permit any economic activity that competes with it. This means that it can not permit any new use of productive energy, for the new always competes ...
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| Benefit of Solitude
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
-- Deepak Chopra
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| Why We Compete
Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
-- Ayn Rand
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| Banding Together
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one...
-- Edmund Burke
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| Effect of Government Spending
When the government spends more, the public spends less. Public works are not accomplished by the miraculous power of a magic wand. They are paid for by funds taken away from the citizens.
-- Ludwig von Mises
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| Fate, Freedom, and Fairness
Fate is never unfair to anyone. We are all free to hate or love what we do.
-- Paulo Coelho
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| Spirit of Texas
Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.
-- Sam Houston
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| Women's Clothing
Your clothes should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to show you're a lady.
-- Marilyn Monroe
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| Drugs and Character
Happy, self-confident men do not seek to get stoned. Drug addiction is the attempt to obliterate one's consciousness, the quest for a deliberately-induced insanity. As such, it is so obscene and evil that any doubt about the moral character of its practitioners ...
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| Private vs. Collective Crime
How does something immoral, when done privately, become moral when it is done collectively? Furthermore, does legality establish morality? Slavery was legal; apartheid is legal; Stalinist, Nazi, and Maoist purges were legal. Clearly, the fact of legality does ...
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| Reality and Faith
The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.
-- Paulo Coelho
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| Taxation, a Habit
When men get in the habit of helping themselves to the property of others, they cannot be easily cured of it.
-- 1909 New York Times Editorial
(How they've changed their tune over the years!)
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| Socialism and Force
Socialism undertakes to save the world from all its sorrows by a greatly extended use of force, a use of force far exceeding the force which even emperors and despotic governments employ.
-- Auberon Herbert
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| Gun Control Policy
I have a very strict policy on gun control: If there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.
-- Clint Eastwood
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| Enemy List
I can be very tough. If people think you're naive, they discover in the next second that they don't have heads. So love your enemy, but keep your blacklist updated.
-- Paulo Coelho
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| Electing the Best
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellow men.
-- George MacDonald
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| An Homage to Reason
Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
-- Thomas Jefferson ...
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| Self-Belief
Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
-- Christian Larson
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| Personal Industry
To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the ...
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| No Collective Mind
Just as there is no such thing as a collective or racial mind, there is no such thing as a collective or racial achievement. There are only individual minds and individual achievements - and a culture is not the anonymous product of undifferentiated masses, ...
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| American Government Policy
The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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| On Quality
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
--Steve Jobs
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| Self-Interest
The principle of self-interest rightly understood is not a lofty one, but it is clear and sure. It does not aim at mighty objects, but it attains without excessive exertion all those at which it aims. As it lies within the reach of all capacities, everyone ...
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