Glenn H. Tarbox, PhD
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. -- Vladimir Lenin
Most propaganda is not designed to fool the critical thinker,
but only to give moral cowards an excuse not to think at
all. -- Michael Rivero
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas
are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats --
Howard Aiken, IBM engineer
The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First
you take people’s money away quietly and then you give some of
it back to them flamboyantly -- Thomas Sowell
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities -- Voltaire
It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly
honest business -- Mahatma Gandhi
I do not enlighten those who are not eager to learn, nor
arouse those who are not anxious to give an explanation
themselves. If I have presented one corner of the square and
they cannot come back to me with the other three, I should not
go over the points again. -- Confucius
The question is not how far. The question is, do you possess
the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far is as
needed? -- Il Duce (Boondock Saints)
...the Keynesian model never worked; and never will work. It
has been resuscitated by opportunistic economists, not because
they believe in its merits as an agent of macroeconomic
rehabilitation, but because they recognize its political value
as a weapon for moving economies from laissez-faire to state
capitalism, or (hopefully) beyond that to fully-fledged
socialism. -- Charles Rowley
And now bills were passed, not only for national objects but
for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the
commonwealth was most corrupt. -- Tacitus
Socialism is the last stage of democracy. The process may
be fast and bloody, as in the French and Russian Revolutions,
or slow and mostly peaceful, as in Britain. But it is not
generally reversible by any conventional means. -- Mencius
Moldbug
There are two fundamentally opposed means whereby man,
requiring sustenance, is impelled to obtain the necessary
means for satisfying his desires. These are work and robbery,
one's own labor and the forcible appropriation of the labor of
others. -- Franz Oppenheimer (The State)
Give me control of a nation's money supply, and I care not who
makes its laws. -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
Give me the child until he is 7 and I will give you the
man. -- Francis Xavier (Jesuit Maxim)
Yes, egos are at work in markets. But egos are no less at
work in the public sector. The big difference is that the
egos at work in markets spend their own money and deal with
other people consensually. The egos at work in government
spend other peoples money and deal with other people at
gunpoint -- Don Boudreaux
... All these assignments are carried out by the implantation
of carefully selected ideas and concepts. These ideas and
concepts are neither necessarily true nor necessarily
false. In fact, whether they are true or false makes no
difference whatsoever, so long as they successfully serve to
create the desired state of mind. -- James P. Warburg, United
States Office of War Information
When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know
I am not listening to a serious person. -- George Carlin
While we are the last to put much weight in the predictive
power of technical analysis, lately it has become all too
clear that the only thing more worthless than technicals is
fundamentals -- Tyler
Durden,
ZeroHedge
...it has become my conviction that things mean pretty much
what we want them to mean. We'll pluck significance from the
least consequential happenstance if it suits us and happily
ignore the most flagrantly obvious symmetry between separate
aspects of our lives if it threatens some cherished prejudice
or cosily comforting belief; we are blindest to precisely
whatever might be most illuminating. -- Iain M. Banks
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. --
Sir Winston Churchill (A psychopathic coward, but a great
quote nontheless)
It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think
with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is
the majority. Truth does not change because it is, or is not,
believed by a majority of the people. -- Giordano Bruno
A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the
simple pass on, and are punished. -- Proverb 27:12
All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you
wanna look, I fuck like you wanna fuck, I am smart, capable,
and most importantly, I am free in all the ways that you are
not. -- Tyler Durden
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its
enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. The
severe inquisition, which confiscated their goods and tortured
their persons, compelled the subjects of Valentinian (425-455)
to prefer the simple tyranny of the barbarians, to fly to the
woods or the mountains, or to embrace the vile and abject
condition of mercenary servants. They abjured and abhorred the
name of Roman citizens, which had formerly excited the
ambition of all mankind. If all the barbarian conquerors had
been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction
would not have restored the empire of the West: and if Rome
still survived, she survived the loss of freedom, of virtue,
and of honour. -- Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
The single greatest instance of intellectual foolishness today
is the continuing pretense that politicians are serious people
worthy of serious consideration -- Don Boudreaux
The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a
statistic. -- Joseph Stalin
You may not be intrested in war, but war is interested in
you. -- Leon Trotsky
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks
where decades happen. -- Vladimir Lenin
I love the smell of napalm in the morning -- Ltc Bill Kilgore
(Apocalypse Now)
This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning
back. You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in
your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take
the red pill -- you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep
the rabbit-hole goes. -- Morpheus
Learn the rules well, so you will be able to break them
properly -- The Dalai Lama
Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with
the entrails of the last priest -- Denis Diderot
I thought about our dilemma, and I came up with a solution
that I honestly think works out best for one of both of us. --
GLaDOS
Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us
than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're
leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need
sleigh bells on this thing... -- Major T. J. "King" Kong
(Dr. Strangelove)
