“When there aren’t any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.”
Orson Scott Card
Sounds about right.
Tag: Quote of the Day
27MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
“Individuals who have been wronged by unlawful racial discrimination should be made whole; but under our Constitution there can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race. That concept is alien to the Constitution’s focus upon the individual. …To pursue the concept of racial entitlement – even for the most admirable and benign of purposes – is to reinforce and preserve for future mischief the way of thinking that produced race slavery, race privilege and race hatred. In the eyes of government, we are just one race here. It is American.”
Antonin Scalia
We’re gonna miss Scalia. He was solid.
26MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
“No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway.”
Aristotle
Damn, this guy was smart.
25MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
“In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.”
Aristotle
And I thought this was a Marxist delusion.
24MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.
Aristotle
Or as we call it today, the Leftist end state.
23MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
They – Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things – and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning – all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything – they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.
Aristotle
In other words, they are more alive.
22MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
22MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
“The worst thing about slavery is that the slaves eventually get to like it.”
Aristotle
I wonder if this applies to socialism.
21MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
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“No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
Aristotle
Enough said.
20MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
“Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.”
Aristotle
You know the expression “he must have been raised by wolves.” I think the only difference here between a beast and a god is the possession of enough power to force the onlookers to endure asocial behavior.
19MAY2018 – Quote of the Day
So, it’s Aristotle Week at Quote of the Day!
“People never know each other until they have eaten a certain amount of salt together.”
Aristotle
I like this one. It sounds like something a wise old village Italian might say.