Thoughts
From P. J. O Rourke
A pleasant natural environment is a good - a luxury good, philosophical good, a moral goody-good, a good time for all. Whatever, we want it. If we want something, we should pay for it, with our labor or our cash. We should not beg for it, steal it, sit around wishing for it, or euchre the government into taking it by force.
2019-08-07 at 19:48:44
From Paul Craig Roberts
It is enough to drive a person to despair that among the abundant evidence of United States of American election interference, no attention is given by Democrats to interference by the Israel Lobby, the pharmaceutical lobby, the oil lobby, the Wall Street Lobby, the military-security complex lobby. Sheldon Adelson, a single individual with a fortune from casino gambling of $33 billion, 300 million dollars, has more clout on the outcome of United States presidential elections than Mr. Putin. These few lobbies mentioned above have resources berween them in excess of the GDP of Russia. It is totally impossible for Russia to outbid them.
2019-07-28 at 21:48:10
More From Leonard E. Read
Integrity is an accurate reflection in word and deed of whatever ones highest conscience dictates as right. Wisdom is whatever ones highest conscience dictates as truth.
2019-07-24 at 15:54:56
From Ludwig von Mises
It is important to remember that government interference always means either violent action or the threat of such action. The funds that a government spends for whatever purposes are levied by taxation. And taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend. Government is in the last resort the employment of armed men, of policemen, gendarmes, soldiers, prison guards, and hangmen. The essential feature of government is the enforcement of its decrees by beating, killing, and imprisoning. Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
2019-07-12 at 00:01:00
From Paul Edwards
It is profoundly grim that the great mass of United States of Americans is leash-trained to embrace creeds as hollow, cruel, and false as those of the parties. It is the Charlie Brown Syndrome raised to the nth power in scope and cynicism. This Bait and Switch is run on both camps-the hostile, alienated, stupidly phobic, untermenschen Trumpetariat, and the credulous, myopic, witlessly hopeful, myth-addled, exceptionalist Democratic cadre-so effectively that both deathgrip their manky dogmas as they are herded into the abbatoir, butchered, and fed to our ravenous Minotaur, the Capitalist War Machine.
2019-07-06 at 20:08:42
And More From Cousin Lucky
Ah, the Buddha Ms Caitlin speaks the truth! In this world so chock full of hatred, envy, etc.; love can, and does, still exist. True love is extremely beautiful; but it is also very, very rare. Every single day there are multitudes of stories all over this world of relationships that have turned very badly for everyone involved. Such is the state of our humanity. Love is a blessing; Ms Johnstone is a fine example of its reach and its unlimited potential!
2019-06-25 at 12:34:04
From Herbert Spencer
Some years ago I gave my expression to my own feeling - anti-patriotic feeling, it will doubtless be called - in a somewhat startling way. It was at the time of the second Afghan war, when, in pursuance of what were thought to be "our interests," we were invading Afghanistan. News had come that some of our troops were in danger. At the Athenæum Club a well-known military man - then a captain but now a general - drew my attention to a telegram containing this news, and read it to me in a manner implying the belief that I should share his anxiety. I astounded him by replying - "When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I do not care if they are shot themselves."
2019-06-25 at 10:57:17
From J. D. Tuccille
The government in the United States of America has increasingly become a powerful weapon that two warring tribes repeatedly seize control of and then use against each other. For those of us who are averse to being smashed, it is long past time to consider the machinery of the state as nothing more than a bludgeon in the hands of dangerous maniacs.
2019-06-22 at 09:49:17
And More From Cousin Lucky
If you have "inner moral character" any "government job" is going to conflict with your soul. I found this out the hard way. Some people "join government" with the intent to change things but they soon learn that this monster can not ever be changed; and they either get twisted into being corrupt, or they just get out of government! It will not be long before no one is willing to stand up to any governmental wrong doing and that is what our "owners and masters" are truly hoping for.
2019-06-19 at 16:46:52
From John Holt
We can best help children, not by deciding what we think they should learn and thinking of ingenious ways to teach them, but by making the world, as far as we can, accessible to them, paying serious attention to what they do, answering their questions -- if they have any -- and helping them explore the things they are most interested in.
2019-06-18 at 07:33:36
And More From Cousin Lucky
My contention is that Israel rigged our last presidential election, not Russia. President Trumps strings are being pulled by Israel who has demanded that he have Israels neo-con stooges at the top of his administration. The United States military will do the killing, the dying, and the suffering all for Israel. They have been running this country for many, many years.
2019-06-16 at 00:51:27
From Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world.
2019-06-14 at 14:25:54
And More From Cousin Lucky
Are you ready for "wholesale extermination"? My government, and its genocidal partners, intend to "cull the herd" real soon. Poor people will be eliminated. No living wages. No socialized anything. No more free stuff. The "chaos" will have the middle class and the poor people at war with each other. The store shelves will be empty; there will not be gas at the pumps. When you call for the police no one will be coming. The "shitstorm" is just over the horizon; it will be a lulu!!
2019-06-13 at 00:18:02
More From Cousin Lucky
I call them "The Owners"!! To their minds they own everyone and everything on this planet. They are no different from the violent thugs that mug old ladies because their narcotics money is in her handbag. The United States Congress has not declared war on Syria so everything that our government is doing over there is very illegal. We do not own Syria, we do not own anybody. Our government is committing blatant "War Crimes" the world over!! That is the sick reality of what our government is doing!! Mountains of sugar coating is not going to change that!!
2019-06-09 at 02:43:04
And More From Cousin Lucky
To the "governmental and moneyed elites" all of the people everywhere are just "expendable" worthless trash to be exploited in every way possible 24 hours a day-7 days a week. Their entrenched system indoctrinates us to always perform as they wish us to. Brainwashing children is the first order of business. I (like everyone else that could not afford private schools) was forced to attend "public schools" but back in the 1940s extended families took care to "school and raise their children despite societies brainwashing" and that saved me from becoming a mindless robot. Instead of our species advancing; we are mostly trained to hate and kill one another in every way possible.
2019-06-06 at 03:31:27