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Category Archives: Odds & Ends
Quote of the Day
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
- Teddy Roosevelt
Quotes of the Day
“Nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.”
George Carlin
“Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.”
Aristotle
“In critical moments, men sometimes see exactly what they wish to see.”
Mr. Spock
“Copying everyone else all the time, the monkey one day cut his throat.”
African Proverb
Quotes of the Day
“Socialism cannot be implemented without the aid of coercion.”
“Truth eludes us if we do not concentrate with total attention on its pursuit. But even while it eludes us, the illusion of knowing still lingers and leads to many misunderstandings.”
“In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.”
“[The Soviet Union,] in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million persons to die in the Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. They died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn’t even notice it. The world didn’t even notice it…”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Quote of the Day
“Over the last thirty years, the United States has been taken over by an amoral financial oligarchy, and the American dream of opportunity, education, and upward mobility is now largely confined to the top few percent of the population. Federal policy is increasingly dictated by the wealthy, by the financial sector, and by powerful (though sometimes badly mismanaged) industries such as telecommunications, health care, automobiles, and energy.
These policies are implemented and praised by these groups’ willing servants, namely the increasingly bought-and-paid-for leadership of America’s political parties, academia, and lobbying industry. If allowed to continue, this process will turn the United States into a declining, unfair society with an impoverished, angry, uneducated population under the control of a small, ultrawealthy elite. Such a society would be not only immoral but also eventually unstable, dangerously ripe for religious and political extremism.”
Charles Ferguson, Predator Nation, 2012
Quotes of the Day
“I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.”
John Taylor Gatto
“The enemies of freedom from the left, right, and middle have one common denominator: faith in the state.”
Roland Baader
“Democracy is indispensable to socialism.”
Vladimir Lenin
“Is there really someone who, searching for a group of wise and sensitive persons to regulate him for his own good, would choose that group of people that constitute the membership of both houses of Congress?”
Robert Nozick
Frequent Visitors
Here’s a frequent visitor of another kind. This made quite a stir this morning. I was lucky to get this shot…
Quotes of the Day
“Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.”
James Bovard
“Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.”
Herbert Spencer
“A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.”
Isabel Paterson
“The fact is that the average man’s love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.”
H. L. Mencken
Frequent Visitors
We had another close encounter the other day. This was the best I could do, as they were flying low and fast…
Quotes of the Day
“Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others.”
Charles Bukowski
“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
Charles Bukowski
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.”
Thomas Sowell