Happiness lies in being privileged to work hard for long hours in doing whatever you think is worth doing. One man may find happiness in supporting a wife and children. Another may find it in robbing banks. Still another may labor mightily for years in pursuing pure research with no discernible result. Note the individual and subjective nature of each case. No two are alike and there is no reason to expect them to be. Each man or woman must find for himself or herself that occupation in which hard work and long hours make him or her happy.
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.
The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty. This is known as "bad luck.
There are no dangerous weapons; there are only dangerous men.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
All societies are based on rules to protect pregnant women and young children. All else is surplusage, excrescence, adornment, luxury, or folly which can - and must - be dumped in emergency to preserve this prime function. As racial survival is the only universal morality, no other basic is possible. Attempts to formulate a "perfect society" on any foundation other than "Women and children first!" is not only witless, it is automatically genocidal. Nevertheless, starry-eyed idealists (all of them male) have tried endlessly - and no doubt will keep trying.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
Belief gets in the way of learning.
Expertise in one field does not carry over into other fields. But experts often think so. The narrower their field of knowledge the more likely they are to think so.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
A fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Anyone who clings to the historically untrue-and thoroughly immoral-doctrine that, 'violence never settles anything' I would advise to conjure the ghosts of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington and let them debate it. The ghost of Hitler could referee, and the jury might well be the Dodo, the Great Auk and the Passenger Pigeon. Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedom.
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