Private Property and Freedom – Walter Lippmann
“Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main bulwark.”
Walter Lippmann
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Liberty and Truth – Walter Lippmann
“There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.”
Walter Lippmann
Understanding Wisdom – Walter Lippmann Quote
“It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.”
Walter Lippmann
Democracy is also a form of worship – H. L. Mencken
“Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.”
H. L. Mencken
A newspaper is a device – H. L. Mencken
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
H. L. Mencken
Democracy as Belief in Collective Ignorance – Henry Louis Mencken
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
Henry Louis Mencken
God is a Comedian – Henry Louis Mencken
“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”
Henry Louis Mencken
Gary Lawrence Francione: Criticism of Exploiting Sentient Beings
“The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion is, without doubt, one of the most arrogant and morally repugnant notions in the history of human thought.”
Gary Lawrence Francione
Gary Lawrence Francione: Moral Responsibility Towards Animals
“They are nonhuman persons. They are not food. If animals matter morally at all, there is one and only one rational response: go vegan. Everything else is just participation in animal exploitation.”
Gary Lawrence Francione
Michael A. Klaper on the Unnaturalness of Human Consumption of Cow’s Milk
“People are the only animals that drink the milk of the mother of another species. All other animals stop drinking milk altogether after weaning. It is unnatural for a dog to nurse from a mother giraffe; it is just as unnatural for a human being to drink the milk of a cow.”
Michael A. Klaper