“Money never seems to be interested in strengthening regulatory agencies, for example, but always in subverting them, in making them miss the danger signs in coal mines and in derivatives trading and in deep-sea oil wells.” WellsSeemsSeaMissingDangerExampleMinesOilAgencyCoalTradingStrengtheningDerivativesDeep Sea Book:No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler Source: No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler
“If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both prudence and courage should engage us to rid ourselves at once of existence when it becomes a burden. It is the only way that we can then be useful to society, by setting an example which, if imitated, would preserve every one his chance for happiness in life, and would effectually free him from all danger or misery.” IfsWayShouldChanceExistenceCrimeDangerExampleSuicideMiseryBurdenSettingSettingsPreservesCowardicePrudenceLife HappinessSetting An Example Book:Essays: Moral, Political and Literary Source: Essays: Moral, Political and Literary
“The freedom of thought and action we Americans enjoy today seems as natural as the air we breathe. But there is a danger we may take this freedom for granted. We must never forget it was bought for us at a great price. The brave and resourceful Americans whose sacrifices gained our Independence and preserved it for more than 200 years against formidable foes have set an example of unflinching loyalty to the ideal of liberty and justice for all.” YearsMaySeemsTodayActionEnjoyNaturalJusticeForgetLibertySacrificeAirDangerExampleIdealsIndependenceBraveBreatheLoyaltyGrantedNever ForgetFoeForget ItFreedom Of ThoughtFormidableResourcefulThoughts And ActionsLiberty And JusticeJustice For AllLiberty And Justice For AllEnjoy Today Author:Ronald Reagan
“It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event takes place, when at the front an army is in danger, or defeated, or victorious, the rather obscure news which the cultivated man does not quite understand, excite in the masses an emotion which surprises him and in which, once the experts have informed him of the actual military situation, he recognizes the populace's perception of that "aura" surrounding great events and visible for hundreds of kilometers.” MenDoeWarRealitySeemsCertainEmotionSituationMilitaryFrontsEventsDangerExamplePerceptionNewsMassArmySurpriseCrowdsSensitiveExpertsVisibleRaysDefeatedObscureTranscendentalAurasGreat Events Author:Marcel Proust
“The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.” WayStatesFactsLawLeftBlackVisionGenerationsCenturyDangerPolicyExampleConsequenceSlaveryDiscriminationWelfareLiberalismSurvivedWelfare StateBlack Family Author:Thomas Sowell
“[W]hich category of crimes does the State pursue and punish most intensely? [T]hose against private citizens or those against itself? The gravest crimes in the State's lexicon are almost invariably not invasions of private person or property, but dangers to its own contentment, for example, treason, desertion of a soldier to the enemy, failure to register for the draft, subversion and subversive conspiracy, assassination of rulers and such economic crimes against the State as counterfeiting its money or evasion of its income tax.” PersonsDoeStatesEnemyEconomicCrimeDangerExampleCitizensTaxesPropertySoldierIncomePursueContentmentCategoriesConspiracyRulersInvasionRegisterIncome TaxTreasonAssassinationSubversiveEvasionSubversionLexiconDesertion Author:Murray Rothbard