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Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.
Social justice is a semantic fraud from the same stable as People's Democracy.
None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than read more
None can love freedom but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license, which never hath more scope than under tyrants.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to read more
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really read more
I wonder how many of the people who profess to believe in the leveling ideas of collectivism and egalitarianism really just believe that they themselves are good for nothing. I mean, how many leftists are animated by a quite reasonable self-loathing? In their hearts they know that they are not going to become scholars or inventors or industrialists or even ordinary good kind people. So they need a way to achieve that smugness for which the left is so justifiably famous. They need a way to achieve self-esteem without merit. Well, there is politics. In an egalitarian world everything will be controlled by politics, and politics requires no merit.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
You can get a lot more done with a kind word and a gun, than with a kind word alone.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
Blood alone moves the wheels of history.