Bank Ownership

"When you take a modest loan from a bank, the bank owns you. If it is a massive loan, you own the bank.”
--Jeffrey Fry

The Best Revenge

“Sometimes, the best revenge is to let arrogance delete itself.”
--Unknown

Laugh at Yourself

“To be able to laugh at the absurdities of life you must first be able to laugh at yourself.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Sure Narrative

“When one is sufficiently sure of a narrative and unassailable in its adherence, mere facts become trifles, easy to ignore or explain away as bad research or a simple matter of we have simply not learned how to prove our case yet. This is how bad scientists, lawyers, reporters, businessmen and politicians style themselves as good people.”
--Baroque Gato

No Other Revenge

“I shall take no other revenge than by a steady pursuit of economy, and peace, and by the establishment of republican principles in substance and in form, to sink federalism into an abyss from which there shall be no resurrection for it.”
--Thomas Jefferson

Not The Good Guys

“There was no time in history where the people who were censoring free speech were the good guys.”
--Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

An Empty Vessel

“An empty vessel makes the loudest sound, so they that have least wit are the greatest babblers.”
--Plato

Consistency's Guarantees

"Consistency does not guarantee you are going to be successful, but being inconsistent will guarantee you will not be.”
--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

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

Haters are gonna Hate

“Your haters are out there holding their breathe waiting for you to fail. Make sure they suffocate.”
--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

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

Make Work Play

“Make a task play, and it is no longer work.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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

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

Life's Mirror

“The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving, if you are friendly, if you are helpful, the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.”
--Thomas Dreier

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Pleasure In Work

“One should guard against preaching to young people success in the customary form as the main aim in life. The most important motive for work in school and in life is pleasure in work, pleasure in its result, and the knowledge of the value of the result to the community.”
--Albert Einstein

Socialist Understanding

“If socialists understood economics, they wouldn't be socialist.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek

Fearing the Wolf

"Sheep spend their whole lives fearing the wolf, only to be eaten by the shepherd. Same is true in politics.”
--Unknown

Valuables

“People, I realized, were what I valued and I saw no point in being the richest man in the cemetery.”
--Peter F. Drucker

In Still Water

“We cannot see our reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.”
--Zen Proverb

Forgive Being Wrong

“People will forgive you for being wrong, but they will never forgive you for being right—especially if events prove you right while proving them wrong.”
--Thomas Sowell

Love Exaggerated

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
--George Bernard Shaw

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Satan's Induction

“One of the artifices of Satan is to induce men to believe that he does not exist.”
--John Wilkinson

It Is Right

“There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

High IQs

“There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs.”
--Thomas Sowell

The Whole Thing

“Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.”
--Salman Rushdie

Understand Fear

“You must understand fear so you can manipulate it. Fear is like fire. You can make it work for you: it can warm you in the winter, cook your food when you’re hungry, give you light when you are in the dark, and produce energy. Let it go out of control and it can hurt you, even kill you.”
--Cus D’Amato

Overcome Difficulty

“Accustom yourself to master and overcome things of difficulty; for if you observe, the left hand for want of practice is insignificant, and not adapted to general business; yet it holds the bridle better than the right, from constant use.”
--Pliny the Elder

Topics of Discussion

“Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.”
--Eleanor Roosevelt

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Presidential Actions

“A president who justifies his actions to the public might be induced to change them. A president who justifies his actions to himself, believing that he has the truth, is impervious to self-correction.”
--Carol Tavris

Look at the Difference

“If you look at the difference between visitation and trespassing, commerce and theft, and sex and rape they all involve consent.”
-- Boriqua Gato

Safer in Chains

“It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.”
--Franz Kafka

Evil Never Sleeps

“Evil does not sleep. It waits.”
--Zack Snyder

Sharing's Demand

“Sharing is sometimes more demanding than giving.”
--Mary Catherine Bateson

Prepare for War

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”
--Roman Proverb

Vocation Vacation

“The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.”
--Mark Twain

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Neurotic Evil

“There is scarcely a neurotic who does not love to dwell upon the evils of the past and to wallow in self-commiserating memories.”
--Carl Jung

Calculus of Self-Deception

“In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.”
--Carol Tavris

Seek And Discover

“The Bible says, ‘If you wish to find, you must search.’ I believe that is true, rarely does a good idea interrupt you.”
--Jim Rohn

Public Concern

“The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men.”
--Samuel Adams

Move Yourself

“A man can also move himself. And only then does that man truly begin his own game. Remember that howsoever you are played, or by whom, your soul is in your keeping alone. Even though those who presume to play you be kings or men of power. When you stand before God, you cannot say ‘but I was told by others to do thus’ or that ‘virtue was not convenient at the time.’ This will not suffice. Remember that.”
--William Monahan

Teamwork

“It is teamwork that makes the dream work.”
--Jay Rock

Your Own Beat

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”
--Henry David Thoreau

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God have Mercy

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.”
--George S. Patton Jr.

Be Remembered

“In all of human existence, our greatest desire is to be remembered.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Danger to Liberty

“The greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek

In a Democracy

“In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.”
--Thomas Sowell

God Between

"May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places you must walk.”
--Egyptian Proverb

Stasis

“If you always do what you have always done, you will always be what you have always been.”
--Egyptian Proverb

Your Effort

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.”
--William Blake

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Tell You Anything

“People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.”
--P. J. O'Rourke

Haters Hate

“Haters don't really hate you. They hate themselves, because you're a reflection of what they wish to be.”
--Paulo Coelho

Discipline Drives

“Discipline is what drives you when the motivation does not.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Goal of War

“The goal of war is to wash money out of the tax bases of the US and Europe back into the hands of a transnational security elite. The goal is an endless war, not a successful war.”
--Julian Assange

Possessed by Demons

“We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.”
--Franz Kafka

The Past

“We do not live in the past, but the past in us.”
--Ulrich Bonnell Phillips

Solitude

“You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself.”
--Jeffrey Fry

 

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Explaining Anything

“When explaining anything, the fancier the words or use of buzzwords, the warier people should be. On the other hand, great minds use words and phrasings from years ago that people might not know and have to look up, and that is a good thing.”
--Gary Hoover

Hard Pressed

“We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.”
--2 Corinthians 4:8-9

History Promises

“History promises only this for certain. We will get exactly what we deserve.”

Personal Armor

“Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”
--George R.R. Martin

Ability to Worry

“Our ability to worry is a limited resource. You worry about the things pushed in your face, and not anything else. Leaders who want to control populations know this.”
--Scott Adams

Discipline Does

“Discipline is doing what you hate to do, but do it like you love it.”
--Cus D’Amato

Valuable Things

“Things money cannot buy are still the most valuable things.”
--Jason Cohen

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Powerful Pall

“You can't underestimate the power of fear.”
--Patricia Nixon

Find Time

"If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it?”
--Stephen King

Dumbing Down of America

“The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now 10 seconds), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.”
--Carl Sagan

Never Become Desperate

“Never become desperate enough to trust the untrustworthy.”
--Jedi Proverb

Misguided Public Opinion

“When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe.”
--Frederick Bastiat

Brainwash and Mind Control

“To effectively brainwash and mind control a population you first need fear. The tyrant is best served by being in control of the fear plus manufacturing the ritual that removes the fear. That pre-manufactured ritual will in turn trick the public into participating in their own enslavement and brings them willingly into the iron grip of the tyrant.”
--Jason Christoff

Small Things Matter

“We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.”
--Marian Wright Edelman

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Constitutional Constellation

“If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein.”
--Robert H. Jackson

America Foreboding

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
--Carl Sagan

Open Eyes

“Nobody with open eyes can any longer doubt that the danger to personal freedom comes chiefly from the left.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek

Our Greatest Failing

“Humanity's greatest failing is when to feel right is more important than to understand.”
--Barry Thornton

Happiness Depends

“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Keep Company

“The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.”
--Epictetus

Change of Perspective

“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
--Wayne Dyer

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Experts are Crazy People

“Everything you read nowadays makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people’.”
--Marc Andreessen

Future Empires

“The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.”
--Winston Churchill

Take Any People

“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
--Thomas Sowell

So Much Money

“As soon as there is so much money, say approaching a trillion dollars, chasing any topic, the value of experts goes to zero and you can no longer trust them.”
--Scott Adams

Unhappiness

“Unhappiness is caused by focusing on yourself and believing the external world is holding you down and victimizing you.”
--Jeffrey Fry

What we Despise

“Nothing that we despise in other men is inherently absent from ourselves.”
--Dietrich Bonhoeffer

A Magical Talisman

“Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.”
--John Quincy Adams

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Beauty Reminds

“Beauty reminds us that there is a right way for things to be, and while we may not yet have achieved that right way of being, we must remain oriented toward the good and true.”
--Auron MacIntyre

Idea of Government

“The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.”
--P. J. O'Rourke

Mirror to the Soul

“Everything beautiful in this world stems from being a mirror to the soul of the world.”
--Rudyard Lynch

Limitation upon Utterane

“Every legislative limitation upon utterance, however valid, may in a particular case serve as an inroad upon the freedom of speech which the Constitution protects.”
--Stanley F. Reed

Never Built Anything

“People who have never built anything in their lives, have no problem stealing from those who have.”
--David Freiheit

Limited Grief

“Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.”
--Pliny the Elder

Curiosity's Relativity

“Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”
--Albert Einstein

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Evil People

“Evil people always support each other, that is their chief strength.”
--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Loudest Bark

“The dogs with the loudest bark are the ones that are most afraid.”
--Norman Reedus

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

Quality of Life

“The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

No Credit

“There's no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.”
--Ronald Reagan

Right Side of History

“The people on the ‘right side of history’ are usually fighting for freedom and liberty, not censorship and reeducation.”
--Unknown

Killer Ignorance

“Ignorance is bliss up to the point that it kills you.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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Clear the Air

“Admitting error clears the score, and proves you wiser than before.”
--Arthur Guiterman

We are All Villains

“No matter how good a person you are, we are all bad guys in someone’s story, so enjoy your role and at least be a memorable villain.”
--Niccolò Machiavelli

Social Justice

“Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.”
--Friedrich August von Hayek

Proverty or Prosperity

“What causes poverty? Nothing. It's the original state, the default and starting point. The real question is, what causes prosperity?”
--Steven Pinker

Adjust The Action

“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the actions.”
--Confucius

Get Out of Poverty

“You do not get out of poverty by magic. You get out of poverty with capitalism, savings, and hard work.”
--Javier Milei

What is Love?

Love is patient, love is kind.
It does not envy.
Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude;
It is not self-seeking, nor easily angered.
It keeps no record of wrongdoing.
It does not delight in evil,
But rejoices in the truth.
It always protects, trusts, hopes, and preserves.
There is nothing love cannot face;
There is no limit to its faith, hope, and endurance.
In a word, there are three things that last forever:
Faith, hope, and love;
But the greatest of them all is love.
--1 Corinthians 13:4-7

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The Final Word

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”
--Martin Luther King, Jr.

True Wealth

“True wealth lies in experiences not possessions.”
--Herman Hesse

Core of Liberaltism

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child - miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
--P. J. O'Rourke

Live Dangerlously

“The secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is to live dangerously.”
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Madness of People

“I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.”
--Isaac Newton

Struggles End

“Struggles often begin and end with the truth.”
--Jedi Proverb

True Wisdom

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
--Socrates

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Make No Truce With Evil

“If aware that another is wicked, say so: make no truce or treaty with evil.”
--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

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

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

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

No Truce With Evil

“If aware that another is wicked, say so: make no truce or treaty with evil.”
--Viking Proverb

Patron of Virtue

“There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.”
--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.

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

Love and Laughter

“Here is an age-old truth: love and laughter break through all rigid conditioning.”
--Joost Meerloo

Right or True

“If it's not right don't do it, if it's not true don't say it.”
--Marcus Aurelius

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

Excellence Within Reach

“Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
--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

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

Defy the Precedent

“It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent.”
--Clara Barton

Private Property

“A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom.”
--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

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

Must Be The Money

“Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes the laws.”
--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

Worth Doing

“Nothing worth doing, ever came easy.”
--Donald Trump

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

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

Riskier Investments

“If riskier investments could be counted on to produce higher returns, they wouldn’t be riskier.”
--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

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

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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.

Unequal Equality

“Nothing is so unequal as equality.”
--Pliny the Elder

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

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

Focus your Focus

“Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.”
--Anthony Robbins

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

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

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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

Able Thought

“They are able because they think they are able.”
--Virgil

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

Authorities are Wrong

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.”
--Voltaire

No Mistakes? Work Harder

“If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems.”
--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

Ambition

“Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.”
--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

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

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

Lives Begin to End

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
--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

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

Unhidden

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
--Buddha

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Struggle with a Problem

“When you struggle with a problem, that is when you understand it.”
--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

All You Know Is Previlege

“When all you have known is privilege, equal treatment feels like oppression.”
--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

Two Solutions

“There are always, at least, two solutions: an optimal solution and a radical one.”
--Maia Kariauli

Keep Walking

“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
--Buddhist Proverb

Gain In Venture

“Nothing ventured, nothing gained.”
--William Chaucer

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Ruin Life

“Don't try to ruin my life with lies, when your life can be ruined with the truth.”
--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

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

Present Circumstances

“Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.”
--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

Rich and Poor

“The primary difference between a rich person and poor person is how they manage fear.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Assist Up

“Never look down unless you are helping someone up.”
--Unknown

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Be So Busy

“Be so busy loving your life that you have no time for hate, regret or fear.”
--Karen Salmansohn

Sacred Idea

“Any idea too sacred to be challenged is already dead.”
--Bryan Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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

Lofty Solitude

“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
--Arthur Schopenhauer

Write History

“Anyone can write history, only great individuals make it.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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

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

Time Thief

“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
--Edward Young

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Proclaim the Truth

“Proclaim the truth and do not be silent through fear.”
--St. Catherine of Siena

Acquie Assets

“Rich people acquire assets. Other people acquire liabilities that they think are assets.”
--Robert Kiyosaki

Silence Terrifies

“Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.”
--Bob Dylan

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

Stupid too Long

“Always attribute to malice that which has continued too long to be explained by stupidity.”
--Yuri Bezmenov

Stupidity but not Malice

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
--Robert J. Hanlon

Work At Luck

“Luck is not chance, it is toil.”
--Emily Dickinson

 

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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

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

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

The Best Revenge

“The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice.”
--Marcus Aurelius

Count our Blessings

“We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.”
--Neal A. Maxwell

Enslave

“Those who enslave others, inevitably become slaves themselves.”
--Jedi Proverb

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

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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

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

Advancement of Science

“The advancement of science can be summarized by recognizing what was thought impossible becoming a reality.”
--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

Natural Stupidity

“The biggest problem with our world today is not artificial intelligence but natural stupidity.”
--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

Seize the Moment

“The right man is the one who seizes the moment.”
--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

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

End Poverty

“If printing money would end poverty, printing diplomas would end stupidity.”
--Javier Milei

Liberal Understanding

“Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them.”
--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

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

Cannot or Will Not

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”
--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

Rare Fortune

“It is the rare fortune of these days that one may think what one likes and say what one thinks.”
--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

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

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

Your Dreams

“Every morning you have two choices; continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up and chase them.”
--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

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Stands For

“A strong man stands for himself, a stronger man stands for others.”
--Unknown

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

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

Venture To Do Something

“It is always the adventurers who accomplish great things.”
--Baron de Montesquieu

Kill them All

“Kill them all and let God sort them out.”
--Arnaud Amalric

Ready to Die for

“If you're not ready to die for it, take the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.”
--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

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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

Rock Bottom

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
--J.K. Rowling

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

Being Exceptional

“When being exceptional the one thing you will realize is inevitably you will be alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

Dangerous Men

“Men who cannot control their emotions are dangerous.”
--Andrew Tate

Never by Accident

“Greatness needs luck, but it’s never by accident.”
--Unknown

Free Mind

“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
--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

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

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

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

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

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

Intelligent Self

“The intelligent want self-control; children want candy.”
--Jalal ad-Din Rumi

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Walk Alone

“The individual that sees truth may sometimes walk alone.”
--Jeffrey Fry

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

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