- And that is why free market solutions are not enough. The self adjusting nature of markets are generally only sensitive to the two parties involved in a transaction, they react poorly to the effects of the transaction on 3rd parties. It is why free markets tend to have slavery or something functionally equivalent, it is great for owners and sellers, and the people being trafficked are not factored in.
- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Robert A. Heinlein
- Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty. When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace. When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.
- When you take a bath, you are civilized, when you don't take a bath, you are cultured.
- Give a man a flame and he will be warm for the night. Set him on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
- Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies
- You have to be trusted by the people you lie to ... Pink Floyd
- Fascist and tyrants live according to the "letter of the law."
Free men live according to the "spirit of the law." - Neckties strangle clear thinking. -- Lin Yutang
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
- (There is) no black and white. There's only gray - made up of tiny little blacks and whites
- Understanding the scope of the problem is the first step on the path to true panic.
- In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Habit never goes because if you remove H, Abit remains. If you remove A, Bit remains. If you remove B, It still remains.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- A man with a gun is a citizen. a man without a gun is a subject.
- A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
- "Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things."
- Douglas Adams -
