People never #learn anything by being told; they have to find out for themselves
@PauloCoelho
One's #life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation, compassion
#SimoneDeBeauvoir
The 'nothing to hide argument' comes up again and again and it's obviously ridiculous. #Privacy is not about something to hide. Privacy is about human dignity
#BruceSchneier
And further still at an unearthly height,
One luminary #clock against the sky
Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right.
I have been one acquainted with the night
#RobertFrost
Do tighter gun control laws reduce the murder rate? That is not an esoteric question, nor one for which no empirical evidence is available. But have you ever heard any gun control advocate cite any such data?
#ThomasSowell
Anxious for some #permanency, I guess I needed to be reminded how temporal permanency is
#PattiSmith
The cost of #liberty is less than the price of repression
#WEBDuBois
Some things #torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought; and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow
#Seneca
I would say, let our children #grow tall and some taller than others if they have the ability in them to do so
#MargaretThatcher
One of the primary dangers of #majority rule is that it confers an aura of legitimacy and respectability on acts that would otherwise be deemed tyrannical. Liberty and democracy are not synonymous and could actually be opposites
#WalterEWilliams
Do you blame the hammer for a broken nail?
Circumstances don't rise to meet our #expectations. Events happen as they do. People behave as they are. Embrace what you actually get. Open your eyes: See things for what they really are, thereby sparing yourself the pain of false attachments & avoidable devastation
#Epictetus
#Skepticism is science
#War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes
#JamesMadison
The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous, and surly. They are like this because they can't tell good from evil
#MarcusAurelius
#Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own
#RobertAHeinlein
The universe will always be much richer than our ability to #understand it
#CarlSagan
The future of human #liberty means the future of civilization
#HenryHazlitt
And what if excess of #love
Bewildered them till they died?
#WilliamButlerYeats
#Causality can be very complex. It is very difficult to isolate a single cause when there are plenty around
@NNTaleb