Daily quotes

[Pat K]

"Here's something else I bet you didn't know about tyrannosaurs: they don't corner well."

Harry Dresden- The Dresden Files

+1 for the first entry in the "WTF?!?" category. 

Ah, the Dresden files!!  I've only read one so far; so many left to enjoy.   

Hells Bells- If someone had told me I would
be reading books like this I wold have thought them
nuts. But I am now adicted. Harry Rocks.

[Pat K]

The Nazi regime represented not a unique evil in history but rather a now-conventional combination of two dangerous ideological trends: nationalism and socialism. We know both all too well.

— Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., "Headed to National Socialism", [July 10, 2009]

Well that's just chilling, now ain't it.

[Friday]

The greatest threat to the future of our nation — to our freedom — is not foreign military aggression ... but the growing dependence of the people on a paternalistic government. A nation is no stronger than its people and the best measure of their strength is how they accept responsibility. There will never be a great society unless the materialism of the welfare state is replaced by individual initiative and responsibility.

— Charles B. Shuman

[MTPorcupine3]

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged
as those who are.

-Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor
(1706-1790)

[Kat Kanning]

In interviewing freestaters on why they'd moved, it was rarely for things that effected them directly, but for outrage at what had happened to others.

[41mag]

You can see it in their eyes as they sit and move the levers that work the gears of the State.  They look at you and know there really is a free lunch.  And when they reach to tear off a piece of your flesh, do you bite the hand that feeds on you? Or do you, like so many of your fellows, ask if the maggot likes you rare, medium, or well done?
      from THE SECOND BOOK OF KYFHO

[Friday]

The state lies in all the tongues of good and evil, and whatever it says is lies, and whatever it has, it has stolen, everything it is, is false, it bites with stolen teeth, and it bites often, it is false down to its bowels.

— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathustra [1896]

[Friday]

"You see us as you want to see us...
In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.
But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...
...and an athlete...
...and a basket case...
...a princess...
...and a criminal..."

-- John Hughes, Feb. 8, 1950 - Aug. 6, 2009

[Pat K]

"The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. Their principal device to that end is to search out groups who pant and pine for something they can't get and to promise to give it to them. Nine times out of ten that promise is worth nothing. The tenth time is made good by looting A to satisfy B. In other words, government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods."

H L Mencken

[Jim Johnson]

"You see us as you want to see us...
In the simplest terms, in the most convenient definitions.
But what we found out is that each one of us is a brain...
...and an athlete...
...and a basket case...
...a princess...
...and a criminal..."

-- John Hughes, Feb. 8, 1950 - Aug. 6, 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sv1I4q6lOpo

[Pat McCotter]

 "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."
—Margaret Thatcher

[Kat Kanning]

http://www.newamericandream.net/index.html

"Our problem is civil obedience."

Our problem is the numbers of people all over the world who have obeyed the dictates of the leaders of their government and have gone to war, and millions have been killed because of this obedience. And our problem is that scene in All Quiet on the Western Front where the schoolboys march off dutifully in a line to war.

Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world, in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves, and all the while the grand thieves are running the country.

That's our problem.

We recognize this for Nazi Germany. We know that the problem there was obedience, that the people obeyed Hitler. People obeyed; that was wrong.

They should have challenged, and they should have resisted; and if we were only there, we would have showed them.

Even in Stalin's Russia we can understand that; people are obedient, all these herdlike people.

— Howard Zinn

[Pat McCotter]

Thak you, Kat! I hadn't come across him before.
The People Speak

[Kat Kanning]

Granny D turned me on to him.  She gave me a copy of A People's History of the United States.

[Friday]

"Mind you, mad science isn't the career for everyone. You really have to love your work or hate the world."
-- Dr. Helen B. Narbon, "Narbonic" webcomic