#Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith

#FyodorDostoevsky

#Government's job is to protect the right of self-ownership, not to grant us rights to self-ownership

@BarryBrownstein

Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid #glory, or one of unthinkable horror

#CSLewis

The very ink with which all #history is written is merely fluid prejudice

#MarkTwain

American #liberalism never acknowledged that it was about white esteem rather than minority accomplishment

#ShelbySteele

Those who #manipulate unseen mechanism of society constitute invisible government which is true ruling power of our country

#EdwardLBernays

In #uncertainty I am certain that underneath their topmost layers of frailty men want to be good and want to be loved. Indeed, most of their vices are attempted shortcuts to love

#JohnSteinbeck

No greater #mistake can be made than to imagine that what has been written latest is always the more correct; that what is written later on is an improvement on what was written previously; and that every change means progress

#ArthurSchopenhauer

The difference between a #democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting

#CharlesBukowski

Let yourself become that space that welcomes any #experience without judgement

#TsoknyiRinpoche

And remember that is forever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon. The heretic, the enemy of society, will always be there, so that he can be defeated and humiliated

#GeorgeOrwell

_1984_

#Elections are futures markets in stolen property

#HLMencken

A state of #war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny

#AleksandrSolzhenitsyn

#Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much ... Inveterate skeptics must be given the chance to follow your reasoning, to duplicate your experiments and see if they get the same result

#CarlSagan

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a #judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods

#EdmundBurke

#True words aren't eloquent; eloquent words aren't true. Wise men don't need to prove their point; men who need to prove their point aren't wise

#LaoTzu

Once one concedes that a single world #government isn't necessary, then where does one logically stop at the permissibility of separate states?

#MurrayRothbard

You hide, they seek

#ThomasPynchon

#Nature is really formless, in the sense that it is one form. Naming a cloud a cloud does not separate the cloud from the sky. Just as when you pick up water into a sieve, you don't succeed in separating the water into strips

#AlanWatts

The only thing any #war determines is that there will be another war