Democracy is four wolves and a sheep voting on dinner.
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creeds into law if it acquires the political power to do so, and will follow it by suppressing opposition, subverting all education to seize early the minds of the young, and by killing, locking up, or driving underground all heretics.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Love is what still goes on when you're not horny.
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
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