“Every nation has its struggles, but when the people come together, they are at their best.”
Source: The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice
“He was becoming divided with himself. Was he a normal human being? More than that, a moral human being? A strong human being, able to control his own impulses?”
Source: The Vegetarian
“You're supposed to believe all of the same things as your friends and allies. These days, everything is a battle, and so you can't give any credibility to your opponents' views. Even when you do understand where your opponents are coming from, you're not supposed to say so.”
Source: A Beautifully Foolish Endeavor
“Government is a powerful tool, but not a magical one.”
“Raising the minimum wage doesn't make the worker's labor more valuable. It makes it more expensive”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“An argument intended to manipulate can stand on emotion. But an argument intended to persuade must stand on fact and reason.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“The wars on poverty, drugs, and terror are unwinnable, and so they will be perpetual.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics
“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.”
“What if it's as simple as one moment? One tiny thing, like that kiss on the rocks? What if I'd kissed him a little longer? Would he be alive right now? Or what if I'd stayed with him Friday night, what if I'd been with him… wherever he was?”
Source: One Moment
“Americans lose more of their property to civil asset forfeiture than they do to criminals.”
Source: Cooperation and Coercion: How Busybodies Became Busybullies and What that Means for Economics and Politics