[D]eath is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.Source: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005/06/12
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma-- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondarySource: Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005/06/12
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If we followed a rich person around all day, we’d eventually say, no wonder he’s successful, look at EVERYTHING he does.Source: Dan Kennedy, Unsourced
What I did was merely my duty. Disobeying the laws of the time was just the normal thing to do.Source: Andree Geulen-Herscovici
As for the “rent-a-cops” who serve on the Jerry Springer show, is there any doubt that they are far superior to any public alternatives when it comes to breaking up a fight at the exact point when the combatants are appropriately half undressed?Source: Walter Block, The Privatization of Roads & Highways, 2009, Pg 252
If we can solve the debt problem by raising the debt ceiling then we should be able to solve drunk driving by raising the blood alcohol limit.Source: John Jolly, Aug 16th, 2011
Utility is a subjective phenomenon, rooted in individual preference. There are no units with which to measure utility, a fact that appears to be no more than a slight annoyance to those who would measure it.Source: Walter Block, The Privatization of Roads & Highways, 2009, Pg 129
... the prospects for liberty have nothing to do with my own commitment to the process of trying to obtaining it. That is, I am going to keep trying, at exactly the same pace, no matter what the prospects are. My reasoning has little to do with the likelihood of success. I do it because I think it’s my moral obligation to do it, because I want to pass onto the next generation the flag, or the torch or the banner that’s been passed onto me, and because it is just so much fun.Source: Walter Block, The Privatization of Roads & Highways, 2009, Pg 417
Words can change people’s lives.Source: Craig Ballantyne
Intel can thrive today and never hire another American. It is not our desire, not is not our intention, but we can do that.Source: Craig Barrett, Intel CEO
I’m not anti-capitalist. I actually support capitalism, I think it’s a good thing. I just think you can have capitalism without corruption,Source: Alessio Rastani, October, 2011
A Ugandan Health Minister said in 2002 that, “Our people’s lives are of primary importance. The West is concerned about the environment because we share it with them. But it is not concerned about malaria because it is not a problem there. In Europe, they used DDT to kill anopheles mosquitoes that cause malaria. Why can’t we use DDT to kill the enemy in our camp?”Source: Paul Driessen, Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. (Merril Press: 2004), page 73
Michael Crichton, an author and PhD molecular biologist, plainly stated, “Banning DDT is one of the most disgraceful episodes in the twentieth century history of America. We knew better, and we did it anyway, and we let people around the world die, and we didn’t give a damn.”Source: Paul Driessen, Eco-Imperialism: Green Power, Black Death. (Merril Press: 2004), page 73
... covetousness presupposes that you cannot get what you want by your own virtues, and must seize it by fraud.Source: Covetousness and Revaluing the Self, by Prester John (Fictional Character)
Peter Barnes: “Is there a risk that the United States could lose its AAA credit rating? Yes or no?”Source: Tim Geithner, April 2011 (4-5 Months before the US loses it's AAA Rating)
Geithner: “No risk of that.”
“No risk?” Barnes asked.
“No risk,” Geithner said.
Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk."Source: Harry Browne, "A solution for the Middle East," WorldNetDaily (April 11, 2002)
Equality is reassurance your neighborSource: Lilija Valis, Freedom on the Fault Line, 2011
will not get too far ahead of you.
As the world population soared, the population controllers came to believe they were fighting a war, and there would be collateral damage. Millions of intra-uterine contraceptive devices were exported to poor countries although they were known to cause infections and sterility. "Perhaps the individual patient is expendable in the general scheme of things," said a participant at a conference on the devices organised in 1962 by the Population Council, a research institute founded by John D. Rockefeller, "particularly if the infection she acquires is sterilising but not lethal." [Emphasis and spelling in original article]Source: Review, Horrid History. The Economist: May 24, 2008
In 1935 one representative told India's Council of State that population control was a necessity for the masses, adding that "it is not what they want, but what is good for them." The problem with the natives was that "they are born too much and they don't die enough," a public-health official in French Indochina stated in 1936.Source: Matthew Connelly, “Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population”, 2008
Francis Galton later coined the term “eugenics” to describe this emerging field. His followers believed that the ‘genetically unfit’ “would have to be wiped away,” using tactics such as, “segregation, deportation, castration, marriage prohibition, compulsory sterilization, passive euthanasia – and ultimately extermination.”Source: Andrew Gavin Marshall, 7/5/2010
