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[Quote No.47223] Need Area: Friends > General
"As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man." - St. John Chrysostom
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[Quote No.47224] Need Area: Friends > General
"As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion." - Antisthenes
(4th century BC)
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[Quote No.47227] Need Area: Friends > General
"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it." - Madame De Stael
(1766-1817), writer.
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[Quote No.47228] Need Area: Friends > General
"Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed." - Benjamin Franklin
(1706-1790) statesman, author, and inventor.
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[Quote No.47230] Need Area: Friends > General
"...the State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form." - Mohandas Gandhi
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[Quote No.47240] Need Area: Friends > General
"For a democracy to function correctly, we need as many citizens as possible to at least have an understanding of the scientific method." - Brian Cox
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[Quote No.47242] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Most people constantly struggle for individual self-respect based upon the approval of others, as detailed in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:] The rewards ... in this life are esteem and admiration of others - the punishments are neglect and contempt... The desire of the esteem of others is as real a want of nature as hunger - and the neglect and contempt of the world as severe a pain as the gout... " - John Adams
US Founding Father, said this in 1805.
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[Quote No.47247] Need Area: Friends > General
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be." - J.K. Rowling
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[Quote No.47250] Need Area: Friends > General
"The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government, lest it come to dominate our lives and interests." - Patrick Henry
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[Quote No.47256] Need Area: Friends > General
"[When judging others, if there is reasonable doubt, it is better to err on the side of mercy:] It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one." - Voltaire
(1694-1778), Francois Marie Arouet. Source: Zadig, 1747.
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[Quote No.47261] Need Area: Friends > General
"Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism... A really efficient [socialist, communist or fascist] totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers." - Aldous Huxley
(1894-1963) Author. Source: Forward to 'Brave New World', 1932.
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[Quote No.47262] Need Area: Friends > General
"In the highest antiquity,
the people did not know that there were rulers.
In the next age they loved them and praised them.
In the next they feared them;
in the next they despised them." - Lao-Tzu
(570-490 BC) 'Old Sage', Father of Taoism.
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[Quote No.47264] Need Area: Friends > General
"Live and let live is the rule of common justice." - Sir Roger L'Estrange
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[Quote No.47267] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Violence is unnecessary and costly. [Given a choice] Peace is the only way." - Julius Kambarage Nyerere
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[Quote No.47271] Need Area: Friends > General
"Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort." - Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
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[Quote No.47276] Need Area: Friends > General
"Virtue consists, not in [just] abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it." - George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
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[Quote No.47300] Need Area: Friends > General
"Selfishness is the only real atheism... unselfishness, the only real religion." - Israel Zangwill
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[Quote No.47305] Need Area: Friends > General
"Whoever fights monsters [i.e. liars, thieves, criminals, warmongers, rapists, etc.,] should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster [too. How? By not justifying the 'good' goals-ends through 'bad' means-monster-like behaviours, dehumanizing humans by removing their ability to make informed choices and individual human birth-rights to freedom from force or fraud. This relates to the often quoted Latin saying 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? for 'Who watches the watchers?' or sometimes 'Who polices the police?']." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.47306] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Self-Defense and Martial Arts:] Whoever fights monsters [i.e. liars, thieves, rapists, criminals, terrorists, warmongers, etc.,] should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster [too. How? By not justifying the 'good' goals-ends through 'bad' means-monster-like behaviours, dehumanizing humans by removing their ability to make informed choices and individual human birth-rights to freedom from force or fraud. This relates to the often quoted Latin saying 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodies?' for 'Who watches the watchers?' or sometimes 'Who polices the police?']." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.47325] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities." - Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
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[Quote No.47326] Need Area: Friends > General
"[War, Martial Arts and Self-Defense:] When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil." - Max Lerner
(1902-1992) US political columnist, educator. Source: 'Actions and Passions', 1949.
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[Quote No.47327] Need Area: Friends > General
"'Tis better to suffer wrong than do it." - Thomas Fuller
(1608-1661) English clergyman, writer. Source: Gnomologia, 1732.
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[Quote No.47346] Need Area: Friends > General
"The illegitimate use of a state by economic interests for their own ends is based upon a preexisting illegitimate power of the state to enrich some persons at the expense of others. Eliminate that illegitimate power of giving differential economic benefits and you eliminate or drastically restrict the motive for wanting political influence." - Robert Nozick
Famous philosopher. Quote from his book, 'Anarchy, State, and Utopia', 1974.
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[Quote No.47348] Need Area: Friends > General
"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher!" - Henry van Dyke
(1852-1933), poet
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[Quote No.47375] Need Area: Friends > General
"...a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse..." - Thomas Jefferson
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[Quote No.47381] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Reciprocity as the basis of ethics and morality between people:] Treat others [and their possessions and property] as you would like yourself [and your possessions and property] to be treated!" - Lawrence Reed
[http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/lawrence-reed-on-the-fall-of-rome-and-modern-parallels#axzz2cQ8HaCPb ]
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[Quote No.47384] Need Area: Friends > General
"It is no coincidence that the century of total war coincided with the century of central banking." - Ron Paul
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[Quote No.47386] Need Area: Friends > General
"Individual rights are the means of subordinating society to moral law. [The Bill of Rights protects individuals from the tyranny of the majority in a democracy.]" - Ayn Rand
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[Quote No.47387] Need Area: Friends > General
"INDIVIDUALISM: The term 'individualism' has a great variety of meanings in social and political philosophy. There are at least three types that can be distinguished: (1) ontological individualism, (2) methodological individualism, and (3) moral or political individualism. Ontological individualism is the doctrine that social reality consists, ultimately, only of persons who choose and act. Collectives, such as a social class, state, or a group, cannot act so they are not considered to have a reality independent of the actions of persons. Methodological individualists hold that the only genuinely scientific propositions in social science are those that can be reduced to the actions, dispositions, and decisions of individuals. Political or moral individualism is the theory that individuals should be left, as far as possible, to determine their own futures in economic and moral matters. Key thinkers include Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Robert Nozick, John Locke, and Herbert Spencer." - Stephen Grabill
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[Quote No.47389] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Throughout history, all governments have tried to have a monopoly of power and force.] The people of the various provinces are strictly forbidden to have in their possession any swords, bows, spears, firearms, or other types of arms. The possession of these elements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues, and tends to permit uprising. Therefore, the heads of provinces, official agents, and deputies are ordered to collect all the weapons mentioned above and turn them over to the government." - Toyotomi Hideyoshi
(1536-1598) Japanese Chancellor of the Realm, preeminent daimyo, warrior, general and politician of the Sengoku period.
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[Quote No.47396] Need Area: Friends > General
"...I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish." - Michael Jordan
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[Quote No.47415] Need Area: Friends > General
"The printing press [for propaganda for your own people and your opposition, before, during and after war] is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander." - Thomas Edward Lawrence
Also known as 'Lawrence of Arabia'.
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[Quote No.47428] Need Area: Friends > General
"There are circumstances which make the consumption of capital unavoidable. A costly war cannot be financed without such a damaging measure....There may arise situations in which it may be unavoidable to burn down the house to keep from freezing, but those [voters and government officials] who do that should realize what it costs and what they will have to do without later on." - Ludwig von Mises
'Interventionism: An Economic Analysis', 1940.
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[Quote No.47429] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Do unto others twenty percent better than you would expect them to do unto you, to correct for subjective error." - Linus Pauling
Famous American scientist. He was one of only two people in history (the other was Marie Curie) to receive two Nobel Prize awards: the Nobel chemistry award in 1954 and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. You may have heard different versions of this quote, tweaking 'the Golden Rule', as he repeated it in a number of slightly different ways over the years, even changing the percentage from 20 to 25 percent!
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[Quote No.47430] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us." - Aristotle
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[Quote No.47431] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain, and then refuse under any circumstance, whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.
" - Karen Armstrong
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[Quote No.47432] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Do as you would be done by is the surest method that I know of pleasing." - Lord Chesterfield
Philip Dormer Stanhope
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[Quote No.47433] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Do unto others as they would want, but with imagination." - Marcel Duchamp
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[Quote No.47434] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." - Robert G. Ingersoll
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[Quote No.47436] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] As you would have people do to you, do to them; and what you dislike to be done to you, don't do to them." - Muhammad
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[Quote No.47437] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Ethics, reciprocity and the Golden Rule:] Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters." - Seneca the Younger
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[Quote No.47460] Need Area: Friends > General
"The distress we see someone experiencing — the compassion we feel for them — isn't determined by the objective facts on the ground; it's determined by who's looking. ... It's not the severity or the objective facts of a disaster that motivate us to feel compassion and to help — it's whether or not we see ourselves in the victims. [It's about our identification with them and our imagination and empathy!]
" - David DeSteno
Psychologist and director of Northeastern University’s Social Emotions Lab and author of the fascinating psychology book, 'Out of Character: Surprising Truths About the Liar, Cheat, Sinner (and Saint) Lurking in All of Us'.
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[Quote No.47462] Need Area: Friends > General
"Individualism is determined by the relative balance between freedom and equality: The more freedom the more individuality; the more equality the less individuality. " - Anonymous
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[Quote No.47463] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Democracy can be perceived as just a peaceful-diplomatic-'civilised' form of civil war. If the majority opinion, as decided by vote, is not respected by the minority then it is ignored or decided by force.] Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - John F. Kennedy
US President
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[Quote No.47466] Need Area: Friends > General
"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." - Thomas Paine
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[Quote No.47467] Need Area: Friends > General
"I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did." - Henry James
American writer
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[Quote No.47478] Need Area: Friends > General
"[The reason government engages in censorship and propaganda is because they fear losing control of the behaviour of the population and therefore their own power, position and ideology. They understand that...] The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions or taboos [and then influence others, therefore the easiest way to control this person is to control the information they have and failing that to discredit, lock up or ultimately 'dispose' of them. The reason the legal right to freedom of speech and association is considered necessary by the wise is to guard against those in power, regardless of their political persuasion, abusing their power over other human beings]." - H.L. Mencken
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[Quote No.47489] Need Area: Friends > General
"America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others." - Alex Epstein
American writer. Source: John McCain’s Deadly Moral Code (2000.08.12 ) Capitalism Magazine.
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[Quote No.47490] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism:] One of the things that people have to understand is that the American Revolution [and the John Locke inspired US Constitution, especially the preamble and Bill of Rights amendments] was truly an epic revolution in the way individuals were perceived in relation to the rest of the society. Throughout history individuals had always been cogs in some machine; they'd always been something to be sacrificed for the king, the tribe, the gang, the chieftain, the society around them, the race, whatever, and the real revolution, in America especially, was a moral revolution. It was a moral revolution in that ... suddenly, with the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the individual, his life, his well-being, his property, his happiness became central to our values, and that is what really made America unique. People came here from all over the world to try to escape the kind of oppression they had and experienced in the past. They came here for freedom; they came here for self-expression and self-realization, and America offered them that kind of a place." - Robert Bidinotto
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[Quote No.47491] Need Area: Friends > General
"[Individualism is the opposite of socialism, communism and collectivism:] To be a socialist is to submit the I to the thou; socialism is sacrificing the individual to the whole [without the individual's free, informed consent]." - Joseph Goebbels
(1897-1945) German Reich Minister of Propaganda (1933-1945) and a leading member in the National Socialist German Workers' ('Nazi') Party.
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