Nothing can corrupt and disintegrate a culture or a man’s character as thoroughly as does the precept of moral agnosticism, the idea that one must never pass moral judgment on others, that one must be morally tolerant of anything, that the good consists of never distinguishing good from evil. It is obvious who profits and who loses by such a precept. It is not justice or equal treatment that you grant to men when you abstain equally from praising men’s virtues and from condemning men’s vices. When your impartial attitude declares, in effect, that neither the good nor the evil may expect anything from you – whom do you betray and whom do you encourage? Ayn Rand
VOS, (1905-1982)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, its …
It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
The election of Hoover … should result in continued prosperity for 1929. Roger …
The election of Hoover … should result in continued prosperity for 1929. Roger W. Babson
Roger W. Babson addressing Wellesley College, 9/17/29 (financial statistician and founder of the Babson Institute)
A free people ought..to be armed… George Washington speech of January …
A free people ought..to be armed…
George Washington
speech of January 7, 1790, in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790, 1732-1799.
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where …
The purpose of a tax cut is to leave more money where it belongs — in the hands of the working men and working women who earned it in the first place. Robert Dole
Robert Dole, Barron’s August 12, 1996
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. Marcus Aurelius …
He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
Marcus Aurelius
The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the …
The Department of Justice’s National Crime Victimization Survey reports that the probability of serious injury from an attack is 2.5 times greater for women offering no resistance than for women resisting with a gun. [For men] offering no resistance is 1.4 times more likely to result in serious injury than resisting with a gun.
Wall Street Journal, November 11, 1998
A man in love is incomplete until he has married — then he’…
A man in love is incomplete until he has married — then he’s finished. Zsa Zsa Gabor
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your …
The usual road to slavery is that first they take away your guns, then they take away your property, then last of all they tell you to shut up and say you are enjoying it. James A. Donald
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or …
Positive economics is in principle independent of any particular ethical position or normative judgments…In short, positive economics is or can be an ‘objective’ science. Milton Friedman
Nobel Prize-winning economist (1912-2006), Essays in Positive Economics (1962), pt. 1, 1.