All Men Are Frauds – H. L. Mencken
“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
H. L. Mencken
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Hanns Joachim Friedrichs Quote on Journalism: The Art of Neutrality!
“You can tell a good journalist by the fact that he doesn’t get mean about a cause, even a good cause.”
Hanns Joachim Friedrichs
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz Quote: How Industry Influences Our Way of Life
“To the extent that handicrafts are wiped out by the competition of industry, and to the extent that the smaller entrepreneur, including the farmer, becomes unable to exist, we are all quite simply forced to submit in our way of life to the wishes of the large producers, to eat the food and put on the clothes they think good for us, and what is worst of all, by virtue of the conditioning bestowed upon us, we do not even realize that they are doing so.”
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz
John Henry Mackay Quote: Discover the True Meaning of Anarchism!
“Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Thou art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art thou, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them that ne’er have striven The truth that lies behind a word to find, To them the word’s right meaning was not given. They shall continue blind among the blind. But thou, O word, so clear, so strong, so pure, Thou sayest all which I for goal have taken. I give thee to the future! Thine secure When each at least unto himself shall waken. Comes it in sunshine? In the tempest’s thrill? I cannot tell—but it the earth shall see! I am an Anarchist! Wherefore I will Not rule, and also ruled I will not be!”
John Henry Mackay
Fred Hoyle Quotes: How Complicated Theories Preserve Old Ideas – Inspirational Wisdom
“They defend the old theories by complicating things to the point of incomprehensibility.”
Fred Hoyle
Murray Rothbard Quote: Why Equality Does Not Mean Freedom – The Shocking Truth
“The egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.””
Murray Rothbard
Bill Maher Quotes: The Humorous Truth About Childhood Dreams & Reality
“If kids knew what they wanted to be at age eight, the world would be filled with cowboys and princesses. I wanted to be a pirate. Thank God nobody took me seriously and scheduled me for eye removal and peg leg surgery.”
Bill Maher
Truth is a Compound – Tom Stoppard Quote
“The truth is always a compound of two half-truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.”
Tom Stoppard
Theodore Dalrymple on Political Correctness: The Dangerous Propaganda of Lies
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.”
Theodore Dalrymple
A Lie That Is Half-Truth – Alfred Tennyson
“A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.”
Alfred Tennyson