X-Quotes/Words From The Wise. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "There is no such "condition" as "Schizophrenia," but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event*" -- MDr. R. D. Laing, "The Politics of Experience;" Ch.5 "The Schizophrenic Experience" Pg. 121/122. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rape [Censorship, Gun Control, Espionage, etc...] is a true weapon of mass destruction; that and gun grabbing." -- Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; The Absent Mind. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Pragmatism is a coward's practicality." -- Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; The Absent Mind. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In revenge and in love. woman is more barbarous than man.". - Dr. F. Nietzsche -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As you have the power, sir, to do some service to letters, I implore you not to clip the wings of our writers so closely, nor turn into barndoor fowls those who, allowed a start, might become eagles; reasonable liberty permits the mind to soar--slavery makes it creep." -- Voltaire [A Letter To A First Commissioner] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A: Yes, yes. There is a natural law, and it does not consist either in doing harm to others or in rejoicing thereat. -- [FMA] Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Natural Law. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An itinerant bookseller does not burden himself with a Virgil, with a Horace, but with a new book, even though it be detestible. He draws a you aside and says to you: "Sir, do you want some books from Holland?" [FMA] Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- New Novelties (Trends and Fads to Prechew). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Chance is a word void of meaning, nothing happens without a cause." -- Voltaire; Phil. Dict. -- Chance -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Cool, like popular, is a word that is often associated with self betrayal." -- Gölök Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One should stat clear of comparing one self to others to feel like scum, one should compare themselves to what they could be or what they were for that; the same could be said about feeling good about one self." -- Gölök Buday, 2003 aka The Absent Mind -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When the poison's pusher uses the poison, you can be sure he has and has used the antidote." -- Gölök Buday, 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." -- Thomas Paine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it. -P.J. O'Rourke -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There may not be an 'I' in team, but there is an 'I' in Libertarian (in fact 2)" -- Gölök Buday, April of 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...I would have wished that no one in the state that could claim he was above the law, and that no one from outside the state could dictate a law [Fuck the UN] that the state was obliged to recognize. For regardless of how the government is formally constituted, if there is a single man not subject to the law, all the others are necessarily at that man's mercy." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "...It follows that if in such a fortunate situation it (the country/ state) would have nothing to fear but itself, and if citizens were trained in arms, it would be more for maintaining that soldiery spirit and noble courage that are so well suited for freedom and cultivate the taste for it rather than from the necessity for it's citizens' actual defence. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; To The Republic Of Geneva: Discourse On Inequality. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom can only exist if all laws apply to all people." -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau; possible paraphrase. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Think, it's not illegal yet." -- George Clinton -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "He who loves himself became great in himself, and he who loved others became great through his devotion, and he who loved God became greater than all." -- Sřren Kierkegaard -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Life must be lived forwards, but it can only be understood backwards" -- Sřren Kierkegaard -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A Press That Is Not Free Isn't A Press At All" -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A Government, Of All Things, Is To Be Questioned And Inspected" -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "At The Very Least, Insanity Isn't Unsanitary" -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "it is an abomination for a person's tax dollars to be used to further a faith to which he does not subscribe. You want to pray, go to church. Nobody's objecting." -- Thomas Jefferson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I am the first Prime Minister of this country of neither altogether English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 29, 1958, Maclean's. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We shall never build the nation which our potential resources make possible by dividing ourselves into Anglophones, Francophones, multiculturalphones, or whatever kind of phoneys you choose. I say: Americans, first, last, and always!" - Gölök Buday, Purposely misquoting the Chiefs Quote For His Own Agenda (2002). -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, March 11, 1958 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "As long as there is a drop of blood in my body they won't stop me from talking about freedom." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, June 3, 1962, Sudbury, Ontario. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words." - Prime Minister Diefenbaker, April 9, 1970, House of Commons. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I Am A Surrealists" -- What Salvador Dali Said When Asked Why He Didn't Belong To The Surrealists (this may be true, regarding why actors tend not to belong to the Group of Actors and Libertarians don't always belong to the Libertarian Party.) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life" -- Theodore Rooseveldt [IV-10-1899, Chicago, IL] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I prefer to go to church, not have church come to me." -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It's almost as if he [Bill Clinton] spent 8 years pissing all over the presidency and on his last day went, 'oh! missed a spot." -- Lewis Black on Rich Pardon, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Honesty Makes An Opinion Important, Dishonesty Makes It Irrelevant (unimportant even)" -- Gölök Buday; 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "An Opinion, Like An Axe, Is Only As Good As The Person Who Wields It." -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Value Of A Comment Derives From The Honesty Of The Orator And/Or Writer." -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Height Of Genius Is The Ability To Conceal It." -- George Bernard Shaw -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "[To My Fellow-Citizens of the United States of America I put the following work under your protection. It contains my opinion on religion.] You will do me justice to remember that I have always strenuously supported the right to his own opinion, however different that opinion may be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it." -- Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "There Is A Difference Between Community Involvement and Being Involved (Or A Part Of) In A Community." -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We trained hard but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing. And what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while producing inefficiency, confusion and demoralization." -- Gaius Petronius Arbiter, 1st century AD; Satyricon. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If You Have A Lawsuit, Your Goods, Your Honor, Your Very Life Depends On The Very Interpretation Of A Book You Never Read." -- Francois "Voltaire" Marie Arouet; Phil. Dictionary. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The Suppression Of A Word Is What Gives It Power." -- Lenny Bruce. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Window Peepers, Authoritarians In General, Tend To Be The Biggest Scoundrels." -- Gölök Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sometimes, It's Not A Good Idea To Listen For, But A Good Question." -- Gölök Buday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Small Government's A Start" -- Gölök Buday. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Funny how diversity is ok unless it's of opinion or philosophical." -- Gölök Zoltán Leenderdt Franco Buday; On "Divisive Opinions and Issues;" December 2nd, 2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I rather have one competant employee, than a million incompetent ones, one competent something than a million incompetent something; and criminality counts as incompetance in business as well." -- Gölök Z. L. F. Buday -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me,and I think that's pretty important. -- Martin Luther King Jr. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall." -- Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We are not afraid to follow the truth where ever it may lead, nor [afraid] to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it." -- Thomas Jefferson -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A Republic, Not An Empire." -- Patrick J. Buchanan, Title of His Book and a point about the USoA. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~