Unfortunately for governments like that of Iran, when they forbid something, people become more interested.
Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!
We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.
What we seek is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.
Always remember: When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves.
When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.
The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions, no other guide but their own will. This complete independence, which they constantly enjoy towards their equ...
A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise and good that everyone deserved a share in the government. The danger of defending democracy on thos...
[Two respondents] minimized the assimilationist implications of the dominant account; Russ Silver rejects the idea entirely. I have no interest in being accepted. I consider this system corrupt, and I don't want to be accepted by it. We're in this to...
Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in d...
It's a funny thing about Americans, we love to bitch about paying too much for the things we really need and are really a bargain, like gas and postage stamps, but we willingly shell out outrageous amounts for unnecessary crap like gourmet coffee and...
I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter...
It is believed that the critics are the men who have failed in literature and art. It is so in social life, too. Without any egoistic interest nobody criticizes the government. Give the critics the money and the power, more than they have, they will ...
Dean McCoppin: Thanks for the scrap, Floyd. I'm sorry I can't pay you more, but it's got... it's got this large "bite" out of it. Floyd Turbeaux: That's why I'm selling it. It's got a large bite out of it. Dean McCoppin: Yeah, right. What could have ...
...alone is such a nebulous state when one is queen.
Being sexy is all about attitude, not body type. It's a state of mind.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.
Quelle sarebbero state le parole finali ma... Ancora il fascino?
Happiness is not a possession to be prized, it is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
Uncertainty is the normal state.
