When goods don’t cross borders, Soldiers will.
-Frédéric Bastiat
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
-C.S. Lewis
I’m Lowell Bergman, I’m from 60 Minutes. You know, you take the 60 Minutes out of that sentence, nobody returns your phone call.
-“The Insider” 1999
To preserve power indefinitely, you have to get consent of the ruled. They have to want, to some degree, to be dominated.
-Unknown
Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being somebody, to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his overanimation.
-John Updike
engaged in intraspecies protein reallocation in order to maintain metabolic integrity
-Unknown
For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Under capitalism, rich people become powerful. But under socialism, powerful people become rich.
-Glenn Reynolds
Look, what do you wanna do? Sit on your hands for three days and pray for Peak 37?
-Tom Schulman from “Medicine Man”