Thoughts
From Rudyard Kipling
It is not wise for the Christian white To hustle the Asian brown; For the
Christian riles And the Asian smiles And weareth the Christian down.
At the end of the fight Lies a tombstone white With the name of the late
deceased; And the epitaph drear, A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle
the East.
2009-11-01 at 17:16:17
And More From Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.
To Be An Economist With Integrity Means Having To Say Things That People
Do Not Want To Hear, And Especially To Say Things That The Regime Does
Not Want To Hear. It Takes More Than Technical Knowledge To Be A Good
Economist. It Takes Moral Courage, And That Is In Even Shorter Supply
Than Economic Logic.
2009-11-01 at 16:09:52
More From Martin Luther King
Philanthropy Is Very Commendable, But Hopefully It Must Not Cause The
Philanthropist To Overlook The Dire Circumstances Of Economic Injustice
Which Make Such Philanthropy Necessary.
2009-11-01 at 15:10:50
From Anne Hutchinson
As I Understand It, Laws, Commands, Rules, And Edicts Are For Those
Who Have Not The Light Which Makes Plain The Pathway.
2009-10-29 at 17:05:59
Send The Marines Lyrics From Tom Lehrer
For Might Makes Right, And Until They Have Seen The Light, They Have Got
To Be Protected, All Their Rights Respected, Until Somebody We Like Can
Be Elected.
2009-10-29 at 16:53:25
More From Frederick Douglass
No Man Can Put A Chain About The Ankle Of His Fellow Man Without At
Last Finding The Other End Fastened About His Own Neck.
2009-10-28 at 14:02:02
And Yet More From Ludwig von Mises
Modern war is merciless, it does not spare pregnant women or infants; it
is indiscriminate killing and destroying. It does not respect the rights
of neutrals. Millions are killed, enslaved, or expelled from the dwelling
places in which their ancestors lived for centuries. Nobody can foretell
what will happen in the next chapter of this endless struggle. This has
little to do with the atomic bomb. The root of the evil is not the
construction of new, more dreadful weapons. It is the spirit of conquest.
It is probable that scientists will discover some methods of defense
against the atomic bomb. But this will not alter things, it will merely
prolong for a short time the process of the complete destruction of
civilization.
2009-10-27 at 16:50:50
From Lila Rajiva
The Greatest And Best Defense We Have Against The Charlatans And Knaves
Who Brought Our Society To Its Knees Is Not The Law.
It Is Self-Knowledge And Discipline.
2009-10-27 at 12:30:35
And More From Friedrich A. Hayek
The Most Dangerous Person On Earth Is An Arrogant Intellectual Who Lacks
The Humility Necessary To See That Society Needs No Masters And Cannot Be
Planned From The Top Down. An Intellectual Lacking Humility Can Become
A Tyrant, And An Accomplice In The Destruction Of Civilization Itself.
2009-10-26 at 17:17:51
And More From Sheldon Richman
Someday, We Really Have To Stop Thinking Of Elected Officials As Our
Representatives. That Kind Of Talk Is Just Their Way Of Keeping Us From
Ever Realizing What They Are Doing To Us.
2009-10-24 at 21:24:20
From Thomas Merton
Fear is perhaps the greatest enemy of candor. How many men fear to
follow their conscience because they would rather conform to the opinion
of other men than to the truth they know in their hearts? How can I be
sincere if I am constantly changing my mind to conform with the shadow
of what I think others expect of me?
2009-10-23 at 22:43:37
From George S. Schuyler
The tragedy of so many intellectuals in the contemporary world is that
while opposing extreme forms of totalitarianism, they are themselves half
-totalitarian; that is to say, they express a desire for a society which
is half-controlled, half-regimented, half-planned, part capitalist, and
part socialist. This strange hybrid they have found to be a Frankenstein
Monster which, ironically, they have a great responsibility for creating.
2009-10-22 at 13:41:53
More From Will Durant
A Great Civilization Is Not Conquered From Without Until It Has
Destroyed Itself Within. The Essential Causes Of The Roman Decline Lay
In Her People, Her Morals, Her Class Struggles And Failing Trade, Her
Bureaucratic Despotism, Her Stifling Taxes, And Her Consuming Wars.
2009-10-21 at 16:30:59
More From Henry David Thoreau
The State Never Intentionally Confronts A Humans Sense, Intellectual Or
Moral, But Only Their Body, Their Senses. It Is Not Armed With Superior
Wit Or Honesty, But With Superior Physical Strength. I Was Not Born To
Be Forced. I Will Breathe After My Own Fashion. Let Us See Who Is Really
THE STRONGEST.
2009-10-19 at 18:00:51
From Cesare Beccaria
The Laws That Forbid The Carrying Of Arms..Disarm Only Those Who Are
Neither Inclined Nor Determined To Commit Any Crime! Such Laws Make
Things Worse For The Assaulted And Better For The Assailants; These
Laws Serve To Encourage Rather Than To Prevent Homicides, For An
Unarmed Man May Be Attacked With Greater Confidence Than An Armed One.
2009-10-16 at 21:48:07