Fav quotes

[MrBogosity]

Pat Condell DEFINITELY back on form!

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"I don't reject Jesus; I reject religion. I'm happy to listen to Jesus all day long, as long as he keeps his mouth shut about religion."

"This is what I reject: not Jesus, but religion and the clerical criminals who run it--the people who Jesus despised as much as I do."

"I am very grateful that so many 'experts' have testified to the definite existence of Hell for my benefit. It's a real weight off my mind! I was beginning to worry that the idea of Hell might be just a cynical ploy to intimidate weak-minded, gullible people into submitting to religious fascism."

[Travis Retriever]

"Law is opinion with a gun." --Second Highest Rated comment on this video

[Travis Retriever]

"What Is Economic Growth?

To understand Japan's actual economic growth, we first have to agree on just exactly what economic growth is: it is the production of goods and services. All of our banks, factories, tools, trucks, natural resources, and labor are used almost solely for the ultimate purpose of producing consumer goods — things that we each want and need in our lives in order to stay alive, remain healthy, clothed, and comforted, to enjoy life and to live as well as possible.

An increased standard of living (material well-being, not spiritual or psychological well-being) consists of having more things. The more things we produce — medicines, heaters, sofas, clothes, hammers, sandwiches, suntan lotion, etc. — the better off our lives.

As I will explain below, an economy's growth is not easily or accurately measured with a calculation based on the dollar amount of money spent on goods. Not only are statistical indices like GNP and GDP inaccurate, they are unneeded as far as observing real economic growth. Ordinary citizens in Denmark do not need to compare GDP per capita to know that they live better than ordinary citizens in Somalia. One can simply look around and see what kind of homes, streets, restaurants, grocery stores, and other goods and services are available in each of these countries, and how many hours of labor are needed to acquire these things.

Similarly, in any particular country, one can look around and see whether there are increasing amounts of goods and services over time — i.e., whether there is a positive rate of change of economic growth. The true test of economic growth is whether or not a given amount of physical labor can acquire more goods and services each year." --Kel Kelly

[Travis Retriever]

"The very fact that people can call a government central bank, created by Congress, with 7 board members appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate, operating under the decree of government creating legal tender, and being exempt from taxes, and free from any competition [']de jure private['] is just completely laughable in itself." --Chris; the first post on that linked thread

Never-mind the fact that the banking/finance industry the single most regulated business sector in all of America; even more than health-care!

[Gumba Masta]

I read that as Baking/finance industry...

[Travis Retriever]

"Actually, as socialism is the collective, usually by the state, exercise of control over the means of production and fascism does precisely that, setting wages, prices, production, dividends, who one can sell to and who one can buy from, it has been long understood that fascism is, and always has been, a form of socialism. The left/right designation is meaningless in this context as is the fascist assault on OTHER socialists (an act not limited to Nazis).

It's just history." --FletchforFreedom

[MrBogosity]

"The Libertarian message in 2012 must be loud, clear, and unequivocal—stop all war! Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop the war on drugs and alternative lifestyles, stop the war on civil liberties. Stop All War!" —R. Lee Wrights

[Travis Retriever]

"The Libertarian message in 2012 must be loud, clear, and unequivocal—stop all war! Stop the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop the war on drugs and alternative lifestyles, stop the war on civil lierties. Stop All War!" —R. Lee Wrights

Awesome quote!
Not only is it true, of the Libertarians, it will also help to dispell that "Libertarians are extremist conservative" hooey that's out there.

[Travis Retriever]

In response to being told, "No, the Socialist Alternative is a pacifist party." by EclecticSceptic (a fail quote, really).

Shane shot back with this bit of anti-bogosity:  "Socialists are pacifists like the Pope is an atheist."

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[Travis Retriever]

The following are all from here:
http://www.youtube.com/Adlasyn
http://www.youtube.com/HalfBrokenButterfly

"Curiosity may have killed the cat, but indifference killed the civili[z]ation."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." - Henry Thoreau

"Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong." - Ayn Rand

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

"Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it." - Noam Chomsky

"Did you ever contribute anything to the happiness of Mankind?"
"Yes, I myself have been happy!" - John Henry Mackay

"The road to Hell is paved with good intentions." - Karl Marx (nothing could be more true in regards to socialism itself)

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." - John Dahlberg-Acton

"Remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - think of it, always." - Mahatma Gandhi

"Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins." - Ayn Rand

"We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far." - H.P. Lovecraft

"Every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there, on a mote of dust, suspended in a sunbeam." - Carl Sagan (Pale Blue Dot)

"If God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him." - Mikhail Bakunin

"Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision." - Ayn Rand

"I think it would be a good idea." - Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilisation.

"I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me." - Isaac Newton

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." - Thomas Jefferson

"Pacifism is objectively pro fascist. This is elementary common sense" - George Orwell

"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal." - Friedrich Engels

"Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins." - Richard Dawkins

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot (my favourite quote of all!)

"The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal.
Many of them are normal because they are so well adjusted to our mode of existence, because their human voice has been silenced so early in their lives, that they do not even struggle or suffer or develop symptoms as the neurotic does.
They are normal not in what may be called the absolute sense of the word; they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness.
These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted." - Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"The initial mystery that attends any journey is how did the traveller reach his starting point in the first place." - Louise Bogan

"Tu ne cede malis sed contra audentior ito," (Vergil Aeneid Book VI) - Do not give in to evil but proceed ever more boldly against it.

[Travis Retriever]

I'm still in awe that he managed to milk win quotes out of not just Noam Chomsky but even Karl Marx.

[Gumba Masta]

Not as surprised as the quote that rocketed me from plus twenty to minus 14 I hope. =P

[CarpeLibertatem]

"Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be." - George Carlin

Not really relating to any topic but I thought quite witty

[CarpeLibertatem]

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations." - David Friedman

[Travis Retriever]

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Epic win.