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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 768d9f3 | Was U.S. entry into World War I such an act of genius that criticizing it is necessarily perverse? | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 81c3515 | The lingering effects of war can inspire callousness even after the guns have fallen silent. Many of us have seen the notorious clip from 60 Minutes in which Madeleine Albright, then U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and soon to be U.S. Secretary of State, declared that the price of half a million dead children as a result of the sanctions against Iraq during the 1990s had been "worth it." | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 328daa2 | The economy which prefers fictitious money to real, is, at best, like that which prefers a leaky ship to a sound one. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 87896f0 | After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned. | completion writing | Dan Simmons | |
| 816a6ca | If you want to stop the war machine, you'll have to go after the money machine. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 73d2408 | The dollar has lost over 95 percent of its value since the Fed was created. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 337ef75 | The greatest gains against poverty in the United States occurred when government was least involved. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 1259c10 | The State then uses this monopoly to wield power over the inhabitants of the area and to enjoy the material fruits of that power. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 91c6c8b | Isaiah] preached to the masses only in the sense that he preached publicly. Anyone who liked might listen; anyone who liked might pass by. He knew that the Remnant would listen; and knowing also that nothing was to be expected of the masses under any circumstances, he made no specific appeal to them, did not accommodate his message to their measure in any way, and did not care two straws whether they heeded it or not. As a modern publisher .. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 3b9175f | Another example I used in the article, I got from watching the old movie Gandhi. The British - who are basically very moral people - were willing to assault Indians who just wanted to make salt in their own country. The movie dramatizes the scene of British soldiers striking down defenseless people. Why? Why would ordinarily decent human beings do that? Well, they wouldn't, unless they could be convinced that what they were doing was not op.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| afa8d19 | The true theory of our constitution is surely the wisest & best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, & united as to everything respecting foreign nations. Let the general government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and.. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 5a814d1 | the people who attacked Mr. Paul are much more concerned with staying in power than they are with protecting my family and yours. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 49d4215 | Capitalism stands its trial before judges who have the sentence of death in their pockets. They are going to pass it, whatever the defense they may hear; the only success a victorious defense can possibly produce is a change in the indictment. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 36d961b | society degenerates into a condition of low-intensity civil war, with each pressure group anxious to secure legislation aimed at enriching itself at the expense of the rest of society. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| 97a783e | The war was fought to prevent the secession, not to free the slaves. People who took up arms in the South did so because they were being invaded. | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | ||
| d5c0f2d | Big business learned that if you stopped fighting big government, you could profit from it by killing your smaller competitors. | hilarious | Thomas E. Woods Jr. | |
| 4718197 | This original version of Coca-Cola contained a small amount of coca extract and therefore a trace of cocaine. (It was eliminated early in the twentieth century, though other extracts derived from coca leaves remain part of the drink to this day.) Its creation was not the accidental concoction of an amateur experimenting in his garden, but the deliberate and painstaking culmination of months of work by an experienced maker of quack remedies. | cocaine medicine quack-remedies | Tom Standage | |
| 82ac5e6 | The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. --Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE | Tom Standage | ||
| 24c48ec | John Adams, by then one of the country's founding fathers, wrote to a friend: "I know not why we should blush to confess that molasses was an essential ingredient in American independence. Many great events have proceeded from much smaller causes." | john-adams molasses molasses-act rum | Tom Standage | |
| a23a0f5 | A myth, therefore, is true because it is effective, not because it gives us factual information. If, however, it does not give us new insight into the deeper meaning of life, it has failed. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e0d4d34 | A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 2215c98 | Of all the great world religions, Christianity should value the body most. After all, it taught that God had in some sense taken a human body and used it to redeem the world; everything about the physical should have been sacred and sacramental. But that had not happened. instead, the churches had found it almost impossible to integrate the sexual with the divine and had developed a Platonic aversion to the body - particularly the bodies of.. | human-body | Karen Armstrong | |
| fd1eedd | We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 20bba1b | each generation has to create the image of God that works for it. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| fdb20a6 | Then, as now, there would always be people who preferred the option of devoting their religious energies to sacred space over the more difficult duty of compassion. | religion sacred-space | Karen Armstrong | |
| 7080698 | One of the characteristics of early modern thought was a tendency to assume binary contrasts. In an attempt to define phenomena more exactly, categories of experience that had once co-inhered were now set off against each other: faith and reason, intellect and emotion, and church and state. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a781a60 | It is not true that Islam makes it impossible for Muslims to create a modern secular society, as Westerners sometimes imagine. But it is true that secularization has been very different in the Muslim world. In the West, it has usually been experienced as benign. In the early days, it was conceived by such philosophers as John Locke (1632-1704) as a new and better way of being religious, since it freed religion from coercive state control an.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| effee6d | In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 68824c6 | lm ykn lTqs "lTqws ldyny@" fy l`lm qbl lHdyth ntj 'fkr dyny@ bl `l~ lnqyD fqd knt l'fkr ntj lTqws" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 1179f39 | Skeletal remains show that plant-fed humans were a head shorter than meat-eating hunters, prone to anemia, infectious diseases, rotten teeth, and bone disorders. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 8f544af | Moses explained, "the goat will bear all their faults away with it into a desert place."1 In his classic study of religion and violence, Rene Girard argued that the scapegoat ritual defused rivalries among groups within the community.2" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 53de9a0 | Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ccf71cb | The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The emancipation of women was a project dear to the Prophet's heart, but it was resolutely opposed by many men in the ummah, including some of his closest companions. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 835b1a8 | Ancient philosophies were entranced by the order of the cosmos; they marveled at the mysterious power that kept the heavenly bodies in their orbits and the seas within bounds and that ensured that the earth regularly came to life again after the dearth of winter, and they longed to participate in this richer and more permanent existence. They expressed this yearning in terms of what is known as the perennial philosophy, so called because it.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| aa4957b | Unless there is some kind of spiritual revolution that can keep abreast of our technological genius, it is unlikely that we will save our planet. A purely rational education will not suffice. | spirituality | Karen Armstrong | |
| f970338 | When Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden, they probably did not fall into a state of original sin, as Saint Augustine believed, but into an agrarian economy. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e980e0c | We are meaning-seeking creatures. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| b4217ae | you "met" this Moneta ... or whatever her real name is ... in her past but your future ... in a meeting that's still to come" | meetings past | Dan Simmons | |
| 2605e98 | People do not yet realize (because the mind isn't built that way) what war can be. They fear it but surely they fear it the way children fear nightmares, dimly, without definite images in their heads of how it will all work out. | Martha Gellhorn | ||
| bba5461 | The English are very proud of their Parliament, and week in, week out, century after century, they have pretty good cause to be. | parliament-of-the-united-kingdom | Martha Gellhorn | |
| b4e1a2c | In Warsaw, you also remember that you are in a Communist-controlled country, though by all accounts the control is now humane and lenient, judged by what it was and what it is in other satellite countries. Still you do hear the incompetent echo in the tapped hotel telephone, you do notice that people look over their shoulders when talking in restaurants - the secret police are dormant but not forgotten; you feel in your bones, as you would .. | oppression poland | Martha Gellhorn | |
| 8524699 | A kovetkezo szam Posa Richardnak, beceneven kis Einsteinnek szol, ezzel kivanunk sok sikert a kemiaversenyhez! A radio hangszoroibol felcsendult egy Green Day-szam, mikozben az arkadok alatt allo Ricsi Daviddal es Zsoltival kezdett kiabalni. - Ez nem vicces, hanem rem ciki! - magyarazta, mikozben az udvaron mindenki oket figyelte. - Felmayer! - kialtotta Arnold a fejet razva. David kerdon felenk fordult. - Einstein fizikus volt, te szere.. | Laura Leiner | ||
| 62dc667 | knew each other in that honest, unmitigated way that people get to know you who meet you when you're still young. Before all the rest of it. Before it becomes both easier and harder to know yourself. | Laura Dave | ||
| 85113d9 | It's the wrong question," Dave said. "A better one is, what happened because you survived?" | Laura Kaye |