Thoughts
From Brooks Atkinson
After each war there is a little less democracy to save.
2018-11-06 at 17:18:45
From Leonard Read
Ideas rule our lives. People are led in wrong as well as in right directions by ideas.
2018-10-31 at 16:59:17
From Albert Einstein
I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious.
2018-10-30 at 19:09:08
More From Alexis de Tocqueville
All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state.
2018-10-29 at 14:06:56
From James Bovard
Americans need to recognize that, once their government commences warring, truth will be target number one.
2018-10-27 at 13:49:38
From Augustine
Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.
2018-10-26 at 14:58:29
More From Cousin Lucky
The title of an article I came upon today sparked an image through my mind of an army of angels marching through these United States of America and touching every one of us with their magic wands and forever thus making each one of us deal with the actual real truth about ourselves and our wayward country instead of our " wishful illusions of decency, honor, equality, justice, etc. etc." !!
2018-10-25 at 16:59:49
From Butler Shaffer
A society will remain as free or as enslaved as the conscious dispositions of individuals determine it shall be. Just as the roots of oppression are found in passivity, the foundations of our liberty reside in highly energized and focused minds that insist upon their independence. There are no shortcuts, no structures or doctrines that can be erected, no hallowed documents to be revered, to save us the effort of continually challenging those who would presume to exercise authority over our lives.
2018-10-24 at 14:39:48
From Bettina Bien Greaves
To minimize conflicts in the future we should aim to create a world in which people are free to buy what they want, live and work where they choose, and invest and produce where conditions seem most propitious. There should be unlimited freedom for individuals to trade within and across national borders, widespread international division of labor, and worldwide economic interdependence. Would-be traders should encounter no restrictions or barriers to trade, enacted out of a misguided belief in economic nationalism and the supposed advantages of economic self-sufficiency. Friendships among individuals living in different parts of the world would then be reinforced daily through the benefits they reap from buying and selling with one another. Thus a sound basis for peaceful international relations would be encouraged.
2018-10-23 at 13:41:00
From John Patric
A person should seek to reduce, by whatever peaceful means his ingenuity may devise, the power of government - any government - to tell him what to do.
2018-10-18 at 11:38:14
From Ms Ella Baker
Until the killing of black men, black mothers sons, becomes as important to the rest of the country as the killing of a white mothers sons, we who believe in freedom cannot rest.
2018-10-15 at 23:20:18
From Congressman Ron Dellums
"If you define nigger as someone whose lifestyle is defined by others, whose opportunities are defined by others, whose role in society is defined by others, the good news is that you do not have to be black to be a nigger in this society. Most of the people in the United States of America are niggers."
2018-10-09 at 10:34:09
More From Cousin Lucky
Neither a plethora of education nor a complete lack of a basic formal education can be used to determine an individuals common sense, an individuals biases, or even a basic understanding of themselves and humanity!!
How many human beings are aware of their own ongoing hypocrisy in the beliefs that they expound high and low during their lives that contradict the way that they act??ÂÂ
President Obama kills innocent people the world over and yet he was given the Nobel Prize For Peace!!
United States President Donald Trump is really what this country is all about!! Just an almighty ongoing charade!!
2018-10-08 at 21:29:54
More From Cousin Lucky
People believe their " truths " and nothing else; which is why our politicians and our criminals will never run out of American fools to prey upon!!
2018-10-08 at 14:33:41
From Frank S. Meyer
...freedom can exist at no lesser price than the danger of damnation; and if freedom is indeed the essence of mans being, that which distinguishes him from the beasts, he must be free to choose his worst as well as his best end. Unless he can choose his worst, he cannot choose his best.
2018-10-08 at 14:24:24