“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.”
--Plato
Potent Quotables
List of quotations that are insightful, thoughtful, and timeless.
Consistency's Guarantees
"Consistency does not guarantee you are going to be successful, but being inconsistent will guarantee you will not be.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Heaviest Things
“The heaviest things in life aren’t iron and gold but unmade decisions. The reason you are stressed is because you have decisions to make and you are not making them.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
War's Relationships
“War is young boys who do not know each other, killing each other, on behalf of old men who do know each other.“
--Elon Musk
--Elon Musk
Haters are gonna Hate
“Your haters are out there holding their breathe waiting for you to fail. Make sure they suffocate.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Been Brainwashed
“People who have been brainwashed and narcissists are similar. Both are self-absorbed and self-centered. They do not know, can not question, and if confronted, will deny their condition. The good news, brainwashing can be reversed.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
The Devil's Focus
“When the devil ignores you, then know you are doing something wrong. When the devil comes at you, maybe it's because you are trying to do something right.”
--Denzel Washington
--Denzel Washington
Revenge Based Civilization
“All civilization is based on revenge. Some may call it justice or laws, but knowing in some way if you mess with my stuff or with me I can mess with you and yours, have in the past few millennia kept us somewhat civilized and have stayed the hand of most sane people.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Existence of God
“Equal and opposite forces have always existed in the universe. Seeing the absolute evil about me has given proof that a God of good exists. And good always conquers evil. I can wait.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Unhappiness
“Unhappiness is caused by focusing on yourself and believing the external world is holding you down and victimizing you.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Life is Simple
“Life is pretty simple. It is to be valued for our talents, to be loved and have someone to love, to work at something worthwhile, to possess at least one close friend, to have no wants of food or shelter, to be remembered when we pass, and to leave the world better for our children and grandchildren.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Make No Truce With Evil
“If aware that another is wicked, say so: make no truce or treaty with evil.”
--Viking Proverb
--Viking Proverb
Understand Politics
“No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Fear Death
“To fear death, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew that it is the greatest of evils.”
--Socrates
--Socrates
Freedom to Differ
“Freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”
--Robert H. Jackson
--Robert H. Jackson
Drink and Be Merry
“Drink and be merry and thankful for your friends and talents. What seems insignificant when you have it, will be important when you need it.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
No Truce With Evil
“If aware that another is wicked, say so: make no truce or treaty with evil.”
--Viking Proverb
--Viking Proverb
Patron of Virtue
“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
--Henry David Thoreau
--Henry David Thoreau
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Solid Thinking
“Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
They Are Lying
“We know that they are lying, they know that they are lying, they even know that we know they are lying, we also know that they know we know they are lying, they of course know that we certainly know they know we know they are lying, but they are still lying.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Love and Laughter
“Here is an age-old truth: love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning.”
--Joost Meerloo
--Joost Meerloo
Liberty's Action
“Liberty not only means that the individual has both the opportunity and the burden of choice; it also means that he must bear the consequences of his actions. Liberty and responsibility are inseparable.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek
--Friedrich August von Hayek
Interested In Others
“You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
--Dale Carnegie
--Dale Carnegie
Excellence Within Reach
“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
--John W. Gardner
--John W. Gardner
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Social Justice
“The idea of social justice is that the state should treat different people unequally in order to make them equal.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek
--Friedrich August von Hayek
Blind Future
“If you don't have a vision for the future, then your future is threatened to be a repeat of the past.”
--A.R. Bernard
--A.R. Bernard
Defy the Precedent
“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.”
--Clara Barton
--Clara Barton
Private Property
“A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom.”
--Lord Acton
--Lord Acton
Political Left Ideas
“The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Invulnerable Music
“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”
--Henry David Thoreau
--Henry David Thoreau
Must Be The Money
“Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.”
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild
--Mayer Amschel Rothschild
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Poor Prosecuting
“When you start prosecuting people for advocating good morality over bad laws, then that’s probably not the path to being the land of the free and the home of the brave.”
--Boriqua Gato
--Boriqua Gato
Live on State's Expense
“Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone.”
--Frédéric Bastiat
--Frédéric Bastiat
The Parallel Society
“The parallel society has proven its worth, and it is the only meaningful structure that people can create if they do not wish to remain mere appendices of the political and social structures created by the ruling power.”
--Ivan Jirous
--Ivan Jirous
Riskier Investments
“If riskier investments could be counted on to produce higher returns, they wouldn’t be riskier.”
--Howard Marks
--Howard Marks
Happy People
“When happy people join with other happy people, everyone gets happier. When miserable people join together, everyone is more miserable. And both types tend to shun the other.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Joy Givers
“There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.”
--Frederick Faber
--Frederick Faber
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Man Must Evolve
“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Elements of Suffering
“Two elements must therefore be rooted out once for all; the fear of future suffering, and the recollection of past suffering; since the latter no longer concerns me, and the former concerns me not yet.”
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Government Reliance
“Citizens who over-rely on their government to do everything not only become dependent on their government, they end up having to do whatever the government demands. In the meantime, their initiative and self-respect are destroyed.”
--Charles G. Koch
--Charles G. Koch
The First Amendment
“First Amendment freedoms are most in danger when the government seeks to control thought or to justify its laws for that impermissible end. The right to think is the beginning of freedom, and speech must be protected from the government because speech is the beginning of thought.”
--Anthony M. Kennedy
--Anthony M. Kennedy
Motivated By Meaning
“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
--Greg Anderson
--Greg Anderson
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Insecure People
“Anxious and insecure people tend to seek out powerful patrons and ideologies to which to conform in order to feel “safe.” When you have little faith in your own identity or drives, the desire to be subsumed and validated by the will of others is a powerful opiate.”
--Boriqua Gato
--Boriqua Gato
Seems Too Big, Be Audacious
“When a situation seems too big or scary and the expectation is you are going to fold, audacity can get you a pretty far to overcoming it.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Authorities are Wrong
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
--Voltaire
--Voltaire
No Mistakes? Work Harder
“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”
--Frank Wilczek
--Frank Wilczek
Lack the Capacity
“People who lack the capacity to earn a decent living need to be helped, but they will not be helped by minimum-wage laws, trade-union wage pressures or other devices which seek to compel employers to pay them more than their [labor] is worth. The more likely outcome of such regulations is that the intended beneficiaries are not employed at all.”
--James Tobin
--James Tobin
Ambition
“Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.”
--Warren G. Harding
--Warren G. Harding
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Stinging Criticism
“If you and I want to stir up a resentment tomorrow that may rankle across the decades and endure until death, just let us indulge in a little stinging criticism.”
--Dale Carnegie
--Dale Carnegie
Harmonious Thoughts
“Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds, and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.”
--Napoleon Hill
--Napoleon Hill
Demagogic Hustle
“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Lives Begin to End
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
--Martin Luther King, Jr.
Care About
“The only thing you care about when you’re afraid is results. The only thing you care about when you’re calm is doing the right thing.”
--Maxime Lagacé
--Maxime Lagacé
True but Imperfect
“I prefer true but imperfect knowledge, even if it leaves much undetermined and unpredictable, to a pretense of exact knowledge that is likely to be false.”
--F.A. Hayek
--F.A. Hayek
Unhidden
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
--Buddha
--Buddha
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Struggle with a Problem
“When you struggle with a problem, that is when you understand it.”
--Elon Musk
--Elon Musk
Great Players
“Average players want to be left alone. Good players want to be coached. Great players want the coach to tell them the truth.”
--Nick Saban
--Nick Saban
All You Know Is Previlege
“When all you have known is privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Mentally Ill People
“Certain sorts of the mentally ill people seek power over others as they cannot control themselves. It is a way to try to substitute regulating the world around them for self-stability by seeking to make to their own internal dysregulation seem fitting or laudable.”
--Boriqua Cato
--Boriqua Cato
Two Solutions
“There are always, at least, two solutions: an optimal solution and a radical one.”
--Maia Kariauli
--Maia Kariauli
Keep Walking
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
--Buddhist Proverb
--Buddhist Proverb
Ruin Life
“Don't try to ruin my life with lies, when your life can be ruined with the truth.”
--Gina Carano
--Gina Carano
Our Constitution
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
--John Adams
--John Adams
Political Commendations
“A politician who commends himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to spend funds with other peoples’ money.”
--P. J. O’Rourke
--P. J. O’Rourke
Present Circumstances
“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
--Nido Qubein
--Nido Qubein
Any New Beginning
“Any new beginning is forged from the shards of the past, not from the abandonment of the past.”
--Craig Lounsbrough
--Craig Lounsbrough
Rich and Poor
“The primary difference between a rich person and poor person is how they manage fear.”
--Robert Kiyosaki
--Robert Kiyosaki
Be So Busy
“Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.”
--Karen Salmansohn
--Karen Salmansohn
Nothing Is Free
“Everything we get, outside of the free gifts of nature, must in some way be paid for. The world is full of so-called economists who in turn are full of schemes for getting something for nothing.”
--Henry Hazlitt
--Henry Hazlitt
Christmas Expectations
“I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year.”
-- David Grayson
-- David Grayson
Time to Give Thanks
“What is amazing is when we take time to give thanks and count our blessings, how many things become unimportant, and how fortunate and lucky we discover we are.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Ease our Fear
“The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply.”
--Thich Nhat Hạnh
--Thich Nhat Hạnh
A Handful of Change
“Never doubt that a handful of committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
--Margaret Mead
--Margaret Mead
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Purpose of Life
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Pay Homage to Capitalism
“All people, however fanatical they may be in their zeal to disparage and to fight capitalism, implicitly pay homage to it by passionately clamoring for the products it turns out.”
--Ludwig von Mises
--Ludwig von Mises
Lofty Solitude
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
--Arthur Schopenhauer
--Arthur Schopenhauer
Government Wastes Money
“It is a popular delusion that the government wastes vast amounts of money through inefficiency and sloth. Enormous effort and elaborate planning are required to waste this much money.”
--P. J. O'Rourke
--P. J. O'Rourke
Spend Others Money
“Nobody spends somebody else’s money as carefully as he spends his own. Nobody uses somebody else’s resources as carefully as he uses his own. So if you want efficiency and effectiveness, if you want knowledge to be properly utilized, you have to do it through the means of private property.”
--Milton Friedman
--Milton Friedman
Acquie Assets
“Rich people acquire assets. Other people acquire liabilities that they think are assets.”
--Robert Kiyosaki
--Robert Kiyosaki
Triump Over Fear
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
--Nelson Mandela
--Nelson Mandela
Stupid too Long
“Always attribute to malice that which has continued too long to be explained by stupidity.”
--Yuri Bezmenov
--Yuri Bezmenov
Stupidity but not Malice
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
--Robert J. Hanlon
--Robert J. Hanlon
Defend to the Death
“I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.”
--Oscar Wilde
--Oscar Wilde
Dumbed-down Education
“One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans; anything except reason.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Improved Mind
“As land is improved by sowing it with various seeds, so is the mind by exercising it with different studies.”
--Pliny the Elder
--Pliny the Elder
The Best Revenge
“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice.”
--Marcus Aurelius
--Marcus Aurelius
Count our Blessings
“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
--Neal A. Maxwell
--Neal A. Maxwell
Fear Less
“Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.”
--Swedish Proverb
--Swedish Proverb
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Had a Little More
“Thinking if you had a little more you should be very satisfied is a mistake, for if you are not content with what you have, you will not be satisfied if it were doubled.”
--Charles Spurgeon
--Charles Spurgeon
Food for a Lifetime
“If you want food for a year, grow rice; if you want food for a decade, grow trees; if you want food for a lifetime, grow people.”
--Chinese Proverb
--Chinese Proverb
Advancement of Science
“The advancement of science can be summarized by recognizing what was thought impossible becoming a reality.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Out Dinner
“It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
--Adam Smith
--Adam Smith
Natural Stupidity
“The biggest problem with our world today is not artificial intelligence but natural stupidity.”
--Anand Tamboli
--Anand Tamboli
Drunken Sailor
“It is not true that Congress spends money like a drunken sailor. Drunken sailors spend their own money. Congress spends our money.”
--Art Laffer
--Art Laffer
Seize the Moment
“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Art of Thankfulness
“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.”
--Norman Vincent Peale
--Norman Vincent Peale
Activism
“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
End Poverty
“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
--Javier Milei
--Javier Milei
Liberal Understanding
“Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.”
--Lenny Bruce
--Lenny Bruce
Subject to Sorrow
“You’re subject to sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger and inconsistency. That’s the real reason you should admit that you are not wise.”
--Marcus Aurelius
--Marcus Aurelius
Concepts of Democracy
“To view the opposition as dangerous is to misunderstand the basic concepts of democracy. To oppress the opposition is to assault the very foundation of democracy.”
--Aung San Suu Kyi
--Aung San Suu Kyi
Cannot or Will Not
“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
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Opinions of Others
“The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.”
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
--Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Rare Fortune
“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--Tacitus
--Tacitus
An American
“I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit.”
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
Never Turn Your Back
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
--Hunter S. Thompson
--Hunter S. Thompson
Life Teaches
“Life is the best teacher of all, yet most of the time, life does not talk to you it just pushes you around.”
--Robert T. Kiyosaki
--Robert T. Kiyosaki
Your Dreams
“Every morning you have two choices; continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”
--Carmelo Anthony
--Carmelo Anthony
Encourage Not Nag
“People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be.”
--Harvey Mackay
--Harvey Mackay
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Study History
“One of the most important reasons for studying history is that virtually every stupid idea that is in vogue today has been tried before and proved disastrous before, time and again.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Fear is your Friend
“Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn’t do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.”
--Timothy Ferriss
--Timothy Ferriss
Venture To Do Something
“It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.”
--Charles de Montesquieu
--Charles de Montesquieu
Ready to Die for
“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
--Malcolm X
--Malcolm X
Encourage the Spirit
“The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.”
--Ovid
--Ovid
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Peaceful Reason
“Don’t ever think that the reason I am peaceful is because I have forgotten how to be violent.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Believe Things
“It is bad enough that so many people believe things without any evidence. What is worse is that some people have no conception of evidence and regard facts as just someone else's opinion.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Being Exceptional
“When being exceptional the one thing you will realize is inevitably you will be alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Free Mind
“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
--Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Live Forever
"The foolish man thinks he will live forever if he keeps away from fighting; but old age won't grant him a truce, even if the spears do.”
--Viking Proverb
--Viking Proverb
Speak the Truth
“When it's uncomfortable, when it's unpopular, even when it's dangerous to speak the truth, is the precise time that the truth should be spoken.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Problem of the World
“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.”
--Bertrand Russell
--Bertrand Russell
Important Strategy
“In strategy it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to take a distanced view of close things.”
--Miyamoto Musashi
--Miyamoto Musashi
Make Your Liberty Secure
“He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”
--Thomas Paine
--Thomas Paine
Push Yourself
“Once you push yourself into something new, and whole new world of opportunities opens up. You might get hurt. In fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal, you are somewhere you have never been.”
--Terry Crews
--Terry Crews
Intelligent Self
“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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Walks Alone
“The man who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.”
--Francis Phillip Wernig
--Francis Phillip Wernig
Truth, Justice and Humanity
“I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.”
--Malcolm X
--Malcolm X
No Constitutional Protection
“The Constitution cannot protect you if you do not protect the Constitution with your votes against anyone who violates it. Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Use Solitude
“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
--Lao Tzu
--Lao Tzu
Make Something Out of You
“If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.”
--Muhammad Ali
--Muhammad Ali
Difficult Openings
“Each difficult moment has the potential to open my eyes and open my heart.”
--Myla Kabat-Zinn
--Myla Kabat-Zinn
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Utopian Thinking
“If your system of government relies upon the sagacity and ethics of the leaders who run it to keep you safe and free, you are engaging in utopian thinking, and are going to get the tyranny you deserve.”
--Boriqua Gato
--Boriqua Gato
Legislative Restraint
“The idea of restraining the legislative authority, in the means for providing for the national defense, is one of those refinements, which owe their origin to a zeal for liberty more ardent than enlightened.”
--Alexander Hamilton
--Alexander Hamilton
Strategy's Importance
“The important thing in strategy is to suppress the enemy's useful actions but allow his useless actions.”
--Miyamoto Musashi
--Miyamoto Musashi
Dangerous Combination
“A high IQ and low information is a very dangerous combination.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Getting Somewhere
“The difference between getting somewhere and nowhere is the courage to make an early start. The fellow who sits still and does just what he is told will never be told to do big things.”
--Charles Schwab
--Charles Schwab
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End Democracy
“Liberals are now telling us they plan to protect American democracy and that's the clearest possible sign that they intend to end it.”
--Tucker Carlson
--Tucker Carlson
Gain Compliance
“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt tripped, threatened, paid, punished, and criminalized; if all of this is necessary to gain your compliance you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.”
--Ian Watson
--Ian Watson
Pressure to Change
“In a free society there is always pressure to change it and make people less free. Leaders either move to the right with fascism or move to the left with socialism. In both cases, these movements meet at a dystopian place called collectivism. Ultimately it is about subjugation and taking away individual rights, liberties and freedoms and handing them to an elite few.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Actively Avoiding
“The activity you’re most avoiding contains your biggest opportunity.”
--Robin Sharma
--Robin Sharma
Media's Power
“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”
--Malcolm X
--Malcolm X
Impediment to Action
“Our actions may be impeded but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
--Marcus Aurelius
--Marcus Aurelius
People Doubt You
“When 99% of people doubt your idea, you’re either gravely wrong or about to make history.”
--Scott Belsky
--Scott Belsky
Evil Cannot Create
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien
--J.R.R. Tolkien
Great Limitations
“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”
--Denis Waitley
--Denis Waitley
Moral Decay
“Decay is when we no longer live in a world where a man is as good as his word, but instead one where you are as good as the lie you can get away with.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Art Against Negativity
“An entire sea of water cannot sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world cannot put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.”
--Goi Nasu
--Goi Nasu
Argue Against Socialism
“The dispute between the market order and socialism is no less than a matter of survival. To follow socialist morality would destroy much of present humankind and impoverish much of the rest.”
--F. A. Hayek
--F. A. Hayek
Life's Rules
“Dance like nobody's watching, sing like nobody's listening, love like you've never been hurt, and live like it's heaven on earth.”
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
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First Amendment
“If there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that the government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea itself offensive or disagreeable.”
--William J. Brennan, Jr.
--William J. Brennan, Jr.
Real Masculinity
“Real masculinity is not dominating the weak; real masculinity is empowering the weak.”
--Anthony Gucciard
--Anthony Gucciard
Place of Judgement
“Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand.”
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
--H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Morals Creation
“It is not our intellect that created our morals; rather, human interactions governed by our morals make possible the growth of reason and those capabilities associated with it.”
--F. A. Hayek
--F. A. Hayek
Liberty Takes Root
“Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. The checks he endeavors to give it, however warrantable by ancient usage, will, more than probably, kindle a flame which may not easily be extinguished.”
--George Washington
--George Washington
Understand the Universe
“It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet.”
--Miyamoto Musashi
--Miyamoto Musashi
Minor Heroes
“Man’s greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes.”
--Victor Hugo
--Victor Hugo
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Monsters Exist
“Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”
--Primo Levi
--Primo Levi
Bought Votes
“As long as millions of Americans vote on the basis of who gives them free stuff, look for their freedom, and all our freedom, to be eroded away, bit by bit. Our children and grandchildren may yet come to see the Constitution as just some quaint words from the past that people once took seriously.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Play a Clown
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.”
--Malcolm X
--Malcolm X
American Labor
“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”
--Abraham Lincoln
--Abraham Lincoln
An Evil Man
“An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes.”
--Unknown (misattributed to Sun Tzu)
--Unknown (misattributed to Sun Tzu)
Personified Nation
“The nation, like the State, is a personified concept. The nation has no life of its own apart from the individual, and is therefore not an end in itself. All life is individual life, in which alone the ultimate meaning is to be found.”
--Carl Jung
--Carl Jung
Never Dies
“Cattle die, kinsmen die; the self must also die. I know one thing which never dies; the reputation of each dead man.”
--Viking Proverb
--Viking Proverb
Powerless
“Never make the mistake of believing you are powerless. No matter what happens, you still have control over your thoughts and actions.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Exchanging Freedom
“Exchanging freedom for security is a mistake. Security always comes from strength not submission. Make yourself strong to keep yourself safe and free.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Fear Death
“It’s not that we fear death, it’s that we fear not living the life we want.”
--Naval Ravikant
--Naval Ravikant
Forgiveness' Fragrance
“Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.”
--Mark Twain
--Mark Twain
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Thinks Himself Wise
“The only thing worse than a fool is a fool who thinks himself wise.”
--Jay Kristoff
--Jay Kristoff
Disciplined Lives
“Only the disciplined ones in life are free. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods and your passions.”
--Eliud Kipchoge
--Eliud Kipchoge
Constitutional Rights
“It does not matter what rights you have under the Constitution of the United States if the government can punish you for exercising those rights. And it does not matter what limits the Constitution puts on government officials' power, if they can exceed those limits without any adverse consequences.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Shoulders of Giants
“If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.”
--Isaac Newton
--Isaac Newton
Stand Up For
“Because if you don’t stand up for the stuff you don’t like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you’ve already lost.”
--Neil Gaiman
--Neil Gaiman
Truth Is What It Is
“Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.”
--Miyamoto Musashi
--Miyamoto Musashi
A Gray Area
“Sometimes the difference between winning and losing or success and failure is that gray area of perseverance and will.”
--Howard Schultz
--Howard Schultz
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Saying Too Much
“Often there is regret for saying too much, and seldom regret for saying too little.”
--Viking Proverb
--Viking Proverb
Revolutions Happen
“Revolutions always happen a little bit at a time, then all at once.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Greatest Fear
“I was set free because my greatest fear has been realized and I was still alive.”
--J.K. Rowling
--J.K. Rowling
Right as a Man
“Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.”
--Thomas Paine
--Thomas Paine
Live as a Lion
“It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.”
--Benito Mussolini
--Benito Mussolini
No Reason to Change
“Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.”
--Carlos Castaneda
--Carlos Castaneda
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Record of Failure
“Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Love Me For What I Am
“I must be myself, I cannot break myself any longer for you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
You Need Enemies
“To be successful in business, you need friends. To be very successful, you need enemies.”
--Christopher Ondaatje
--Christopher Ondaatje
Adjust Your Sails
“You can't do anything about the wind, but you can always adjust the sails.”
--Dr. Bob Chope
--Dr. Bob Chope
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An Honest Man
“All goes well as long as you run with conformists. But you, who are an honest man in other particulars, know that there is alive somewhere a man whose honesty reaches to this point also, that he shall not kneel to false gods, and, on the day when you meet him, you sink into the class of counterfeits. If you take in a lie, you must take in all that belongs to it.”
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
One Good Reason
“Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.”
--Mary Frances Berry
--Mary Frances Berry
Die to Preserve
“I would die to preserve the law upon a solid foundation; but take away liberty, and the foundation is destroyed.”
--Alexander Hamilton
--Alexander Hamilton
Class of Parasites
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Not Real Happiness
“I have the impression of being herded towards a uniform kind of happiness, toward a kind of happiness that doesn't really make me happy, that I am being conned by the powers that be.”
--Michel Houellebecq
--Michel Houellebecq
Emotionally Led
“When you are an emotionally led person, you are more prone to chaos. It takes real stoicism to lead and be secure.”
--Andrew Tate
--Andrew Tate
Mouse Traps
“Mice die in mouse traps because they do not understand why the cheese is free. The same is true with socialism.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Downfall of Man
“The downfall of man will not come because of the strength of our enemies, but because we forget why we stand our ground against impossible odds and lose sight on how vital the bonds of brotherhood are.”
--J.R.R. Tolkien
--J.R.R. Tolkien
True Evil
“True evil starts by donning the outward trappings of good, but in its actions, doing the exact opposite.”
--Jeffrey Fry
--Jeffrey Fry
Dare Mightily
“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”
--Theodore Roosevelt
--Theodore Roosevelt
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Collectivist Systems
“With collectivist systems, the individual has always been a victim, twisted against him-or-her-self and commanded to be unselfish in sacrificial service to some allegedly higher value called pharaoh or emperor or king or society or the state or the race or the proletariat or the cosmos.”
--Nathaniel Branden
--Nathaniel Branden
Any Power
“Any power that is only safe if the “right” people posses it is no power you want government anywhere near.”
--Malo Gato
--Malo Gato
Granting State Power
“Before granting any new power or prerogative to the State, first imagine that power wielded by the politician you hate most, because one day it will be.”
--Warren Meyer
--Warren Meyer
Must Be Trouble
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
--Thomas Paine
--Thomas Paine
Look Like Your Decisions
“In a capitalist society, your environment or conditions have nothing to do with your success. You are born looking like your parents, but when you die, you die looking like your decisions.”
--Unknown
--Unknown
Nobody is Responsible
“We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did.”
--Thomas Sowell
--Thomas Sowell
Do Not Lie On Tracks
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
--Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Reality Manipulation
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them.”
--Philip K. Dick
--Philip K. Dick
Collectivism Paradox
“It is a strange paradox of our history that collectivism, which tells us that we are to regard ourselves, in effect, as sacrificial animals, has been generally accepted as a doctrine representing benevolence and love for humankind. it is this collectivist morality that has served as justification for every dictatorship and every atrocity, past or present.”
--Nathaniel Branden
--Nathaniel Branden
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