The Power of Choice – Quote by Harry Browne
“The power of choice. You have it. But you forfeit it when you imagine that you can choose for others. You can’t. But you can choose for yourself.”
Harry Browne
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Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: We love life
“We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Noam Chomsky on the Importance of the Occupy Movement
“The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche: In Every Real Man a Child is Hidden
“In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Moral Prejudices and Life
“One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Archbishops
“Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.”
H. L. Mencken
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Lectures and Audience
“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don’t want to meet them.”
H. L. Mencken
The Future Influences the Present – Friedrich Nietzsche
“The future influences the present just as much as the past.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
Honor Means Upholding Values – Walter Lippmann
“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”
Walter Lippmann
Quote by H. L. Mencken on Mortality and Time
“Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.”
H. L. Mencken