What exactly is your 'fair share' of what 'someone else' has worked for?
- Topic: Society
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support—kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as ‘racists’.
It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.
There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.
It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
Freedom ultimately means the right of the other people to do things you don’t approve of.
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The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
The purpose of Propaganda is to make one set of people forget that other sets of people are human.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new.
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.
The problem of our age is the proper administration of wealth, so that the ties of brotherhood may still bond together the rich and poor in harmonious relationship.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one is useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.
The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
The generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
Society in every state is a blessing, but Government even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.
It never ceases to amaze me: We all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.
The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
There are two ways to conquer and enslave a country. One is by the sword. The other is by debt.