Thoughts


From Richard Mitchell

It is only from a special point of view that "education" is a failure. As to its own purposes, it is an unqualified success. One of its purposes is to serve as a massive tax-supported jobs program for legions of not especially able or talented people. As social programs go, it is a good one. The pay is not high, but the risk is low, the standards are lenient, entry is easy, and job security is still pretty good. ..In fact, the system is perfect, except for one little detail. We must find a way to get the children out of it.

2020-02-10 at 15:55:48

From Samuel Goldwyn

The greatest security a person can have comes from within himself, not from the outside. Nothing anyone can do for you can begin to match what you can do for yourself.

2020-02-07 at 13:29:32

From Chamfort

In their unshakeable determination to keep people in ignorance, theologians, together with their henchmen in government who are equally resolved to oppress them, make the gratuitous assumption that the great majority of people by reason of their purely mechanical, manual occupations are doomed to remain stupid.

They imagine that artisans are incapable of reaching the level of understanding necessary to assert their rights as men and citizens. Would that not lead you to think that such a level of understanding is extremely complicated?

Yet if only one quarter of the time now devoted to numbing their powers of thought had been used to enlighten them and instead of stuffing their heads with an absurd catechism of incomprehensible metaphysics, they had been taught the basic principles of mans rights and of the duties based on those rights, we would have been amazed to see how far they would have progressed along this path, which can be found in any decent elementary textbook.

If, instead of preaching the doctrine of patience, suffering, abnegation and degradation, so helpful to usurpers, they had taught people how to recognize their rights and their duty to defend them, they would have recognized that nature, which has created man as a social animal, has supplied him with all the common sense required to form a society based on reason.

2020-01-28 at 16:42:07

From Benjamin Franklin

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.

2020-01-17 at 15:04:22

And More From Cousin Lucky

President Donald Trump is now the " poster boy for the Ugly American ". The longer he stays in office the more of humanity will grow to really despise him and the United States government. Donald Trump is " the overseer " for the owners and the masters ruling this country. He intends to " whip everyone " into shape one way or another.

2020-01-08 at 22:33:45

And More From Cousin Lucky

My sole prediction for 2020 was a war between the United States and Iran by January 25, 2020. On a balance sheet it might look like " no contest "; after all the United States ( and Israel ) are equipped with nuclear weapons and Iran is not. United States forces and " interests " are spread out over our entire planet therefor targets are everywhere. If the Russians or the Chinese station troops inside of Iran the nuclear option comes off of the table. The prospect for " peace " does not look good at all.

2020-01-03 at 02:21:20

From Ms Caitlin Johnstone

Smart upstanding citizens believe everything they need to know about reality comes out of Mr. Mike Pompeos angelic mouth.

2020-01-01 at 20:42:18

And Yet More From Cousin Lucky

" Principled Leaders " lead by " example "; they confront the things that need to be confronted. These type of leaders never look back to " see how many people are following them " that is not why they are leading. Psychopaths care only about themselves and how many idiots they can get to do their bidding; all of humanity means nothing to them except a herd of victims to be taken advantage of.

2019-12-21 at 11:47:27

And More From Cousin Lucky!

More dangerous than socialism, bombs, or missiles to these United States of America is the sickening state of our " women " and our societys complete refusal to even bring it up, never mind discuss it. If you want to destroy a society than corrupt its women. Our women have been corrupted. You could not pay me ten billion dollars a year to be a public school teacher because the children of this country come from some very sick mothers.

2019-12-16 at 11:52:22

And More From Cousin Lucky

Any time a " government " creates an agency like the Central Intelligence Agency, or the Mossad, or the KGB that does its " work in secret and is not accountable to no one " these agencies are completely free to do any thing that they feel like doing. They have no laws, no rules, no morals, no ethics, etc. The C.I.A. did " regime changes all over the entire world " and when President Kennedy was killed it was said that the C.I.A. had come home to roost. The " deep state " exists everywhere that human beings have established a government. Like eating and breathing; human beings do not know how to exist without " secret agencies " to do the things not talked about in polite company!

2019-12-12 at 17:48:29

From Henri Frederic Amiel

The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

2019-12-02 at 11:58:37

From Eric Zuesse

This is what happens when billionaires control a country. It produces the type of foreign policies the countrys billionaires want, rather than what the public actually need. This is Americas Government, today. It is drastically different than what Americas Founders had hoped.

2019-11-27 at 16:27:56

From Brian Cloughley

To what passes as Donald Trumps mind, everything that Barack Obama achieved in his presidency was entirely wrong and must be wiped out.

2019-11-26 at 07:08:34

From John Jay

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting any thing by it; nay, absolute monarch will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for purposes and objects merely personal, such as a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctioned by justice or the voice and interests of his people.

2019-11-05 at 13:46:13

From Thomas Babington Macaulay

Either some Caesar or Napoleon will seize the reins of government with a strong hand, or your republic will be as fearfully plundered and laid waste by barbarians in the twentieth century as the Roman Empire was in the fifth, with this difference, that the Huns and Vandals who ravaged the Roman Empire came from without, and that your Huns and Vandals will have been engendered within your own country by your own institutions.

2019-10-29 at 11:29:12

As You Traverse This Life Please Try To Remember That There Are No Absolute Mistakes; There Are Only Errors In Your Perceived Judgement As To The Likely Outcomes Of Your Actions!!!