Posted on 07/20/2012 12:26:45 PM PDT by Kaslin
20) "Ask yourself why totalitarian dictatorships find it necessary to pour money and effort into propaganda for their own helpless, chained, gagged slaves, who have no means of protest or defense. The answer is that even the humblest peasant or the lowest savage would rise in blind rebellion, were he to realize that he is being immolated, not to some incomprehensible noble purpose, but to plain, naked human evil."
19) "The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."
18) "Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."
17) "Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself. If a drought strikes them, animals perish — man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish — man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them animals perish — man writes the Constitution of the United States. But one does not obtain food, safety or freedom — by instinct.”
16) "And what is the state but a servant and a convenience for a large number of people, just like the electric light and the plumbing system? And wouldn't it be preposterous to claim that men must exist for their plumbing, not the plumbing for the men."
15) "Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation's troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen."
14) "I swear by my life, and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine."
13) "Statism survives by looting; a free country survives by production."
12) "Watch money. Money is the barometer of a society’s virtue. When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing — when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors — when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you — when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice — you may know that your society is doomed. Money is so noble a medium that it does not compete with guns and it does not make terms with brutality. It will not permit a country to survive as half-property, half-loot."
11) "We can evade reality, but we cannot evade the consequences of evading reality."
10) "Government 'help' to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off."
9) "The right to life is the source of all rights -- and the right to property is their only implementation. Without property rights, no other rights are possible. Since man has to sustain his life by his own effort, the man who has no right to the product of his effort has no means to sustain his life. The man who produces while others dispose of his product, is a slave."
8) "An attempt to achieve the good by force is like an attempt to provide a man with a picture gallery at the price of cutting out his eyes."
7) "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
6) "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles."
5) "The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me."
4) "The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see."
3) "There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power government has is the power to crack down on criminals. When there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws."
2) "America’s abundance was created not by public sacrifices to 'the common good,' but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America’s industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance—and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way."
1) "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force."
That sounds pretty lazy to me. Please post a link so we may all be enlightened with your intellectual opinions. Otherwise, your contribution here and value to this discussion is worthless.
Douchebag:
An individual who has an over-inflated sense of self worth, compounded by a low level of intellegence, behaving ridiculously in front of colleagues with no sense of how moronic he appears.
I think an opinion can be posted without a bibliography. I had to do my own homework and come to my own conclusions. The "lazy" one is the one who demands to be spoonfed other people's thoughts. Anyway, as was already stated, "'nuff said."
Ayn Rand might not be your cup of tea, but there's no need to be a self-aggrandizing delta bravo about it, especially when you don't even back yourself up.
tih’s law (#1048): it is possible to discern the credibility of a cause by discerning the credibility of its critics.
“There are a number of things I don’t approve of about Ayn Rand—first of all that her objectivist philosophy requires atheism.”
Exactly. Many Christians love Ayn Rand while completely disagreeing with her on certain key issues.
I like to think of it this way: On federal policy and government, I am at least 95 percent in agreement with Rand, except that I am pro life. In particular, it’s scary to read bits of Atlas Shrugged in light of the current administration’s addition to regulation, vague statues, extraordinary power to government and quasi-government employees, etc.
On local government, I am closer to 80 percent in agreement.
For my personal relationships, I am about 50 percent in agreement, maybe less.
On my relationship with God, I have zero agreement.
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I have a policy about name calling. So I will refrain from calling that arrogant, presumptious douchebag an a$$hat.
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Francisco D’Anconia’s retort about the “aristocracy of pull” is the best line she ever wrote.
What is your source for that Clarence Thomas quote?
So does Judaism.
Idiot.
The best one comes from the bible......he who does not work, does not eat......
ummm...Judiasm is a religion, isn't it? Be pretty bizarre if it claimed that god is a myth, no?
Idiot.
indeed.
Ping
The quote was taken from a 1998 meeting of the National Bar Association wherein Thomas addressed black lawyers.
Here is one source though it is worded slightly differently.
What is the sound of an invisible hand and a visible clapping?
I really like this one because I hadn’t thought if it in those terms, so this quote provides us good ammo:
-—19) “The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”
Is this the actual quote? "but rather to assert my right to think for myself, to refuse to have my ideas assigned to me as if I were an intellectual slave because I'm black."
I wanted to use what you claimed as a Clarence Thomas quote but when I searched for verification of it, all I could find was your made up one, and that you have been trying to create it here at FR for 7 years worth of posts.
You can't just make up quotes like that.
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