Quotes

I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there’s a distinction between being a believing Christian and being a cultural Christian. I love hymns and Christmas carols, and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos

-Richard Dawkins

Art takes the trauma and allows you to compartmentalize or even transmute that pain into something else

– Neko Case

Its not a war crime, the first time…

– Nation of Canada, who inspired many Geneva convention laws

Academia values the appearance of truth over actual truth

– Aaron Brown

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

-Ian Fleming

Everytime you hear EBITDA substitute it with bullshit earnings.

-Charlie Munger

That’s L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

-Eva Mendes

I’ve got so much I want to say about the First Amendment as I sort of understand it, but it is bonkers.

-Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex

I believe in free speech, so long as the state is allowed to arrest those who say the wrong things.

-Titania McGrath

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

-F.A. Hayek

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.

-Thomas Sowell

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

-Thomas Sowell

Is that progress from Stonehenge to the Supertalls (skyscrapers) … Is that a net positive for us as a people?

-Kai Ryssdal on APM’s Marketplace 4/11/22 20mins