Quotes, May 2000
01. I am not at all in favour of amusements for the poor. Blankets and coal are sufficient.
- Oscar Wilde.
02. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
03. To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.
- John Stuart Mill
04. A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the Public Treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits from the Public Treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy always followed by dictatorship.
- Alexander Fraser Tyler
05. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H.L. Mencken
06. A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
- Milton Friedman
07. Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor. Seizing the results of someone's labor is equivalent to seizing hours from him and directing him to carry on various activities.
- Robert Nozick
08. Socialists make the mistake of confusing individual worth with success. They believe you cannot allow people to succeed in case those who fail feel worthless.
- Kenneth Baker
09. Collectivism doesn't work because it's based on a faulty economic premise. There is no such thing as a person's 'fair share' of wealth. The gross national product is not a pizza that must be carefully divided because if I get too many slices, you have to eat the box. The economy is expandable and, in any practical sense, limitless.
- P.J. O'Rourke
10. The only difference between graffiti and philosophy is the word fuck.
- Unknown
11. It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics.
- Denise Caruso
12. A great many open minds should be closed for repairs.
- Unknown
13. Nothing is work unless you'd rather be doing something else.
- George Halas
14. Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
- Kin Hubbard
15. Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.
- Sam Levenson
16. Nostalgia is the realization that things weren't as unbearable as they seemed at the time.
- Unknown
17. Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
- George Bernhard Shaw
18. The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
- Unknown
19. Everybody is in favor of progress. It's the change they don't like.
- Unknown
20. Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
- Aaron Levenstein
21. Courage is the resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not the absence of fear.
- Mark Twain
22. Draft beer, not people.
- Unknown
23. If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs.
- Eilliam Feather
24. Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children.
- Martin Luther
25. The most effective form of birth control I know is spending the day with my kids.
- Jill Bensley
26. Even though they grow weary and wear themselves out with child-bearing, it does not matter; let them go on bearing children till they die, that is what they are there for.
- Martin Luther
27. My husband and I are either going to buy a dog or have a child. We can't decide to ruin our carpet or ruin our lives.
- Rita Rudner
28. The word and works of God is quite clear, that women were made either to be wives or prostitutes.
- Martin Luther
29. Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
- Wilson Mizner
30. When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.
- Malcolm Forbes
31. Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
- Bruce Barton
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