Favourite Quotes?

[J.T]

Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas. In seeking to combat socialism from the viewpoint of their special class interest these opponents... admit indirectly the validity of all essentials of socialist thought. For if it is only possible to argue against the socialist programme that it endangers the particular interests of one part of humanity, one has really affirmed socialism.... The nationalist, too, affirms Socialism, and objects only to its Internationalism. He wishes to combine Socialism with the ideas of Imperialism and the struggle against foreign nations. He is a national, not an international socialist; but he, also, approves of the essential principles of Socialism.
-Ludwig von Mises, Socialism. New Haven University Press, 1981. Pp 25-26

[chloe]

That show probably wouldn't make it to network today because too many people would protest it as being offensive.




Lionel: Can I call you Uncle Archie? Archie: To tell you the truth Lionel, I think it's against the law.




No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country...oughta be de-exported the hell outta here!


Gloria : Do you know that sixty percent of all deaths in America are caused by guns?
Archie Bunker: Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?



Mike Stivic: I just thank God I'm an atheist.




:
Mike Stivic: Hey it just occurred to me, Mickey Mouse is black.
Archie Bunker: Mickey Mouse ain't got no race. He represents all men.
Mike Stivic: Oh, I guess that's why Walt made him a mouse.

[J.T]

One who is inclined to much thought is not suited to be a party man, for he quickly thinks his way into the party and back out the other side
-Arthur Koestler

It is assumed that the trade union official and the entrepreneur are qualified by virtue of their office alone to decide questions of political economy. 'Practical men' of this order, even those whose activities have, notoriously, often led to failure and bankruptcy, enjoy a spurious prestige as economists which should at all costs be destroyed. On no account must a disposition to avoid sharp words be permitted to lead to a compromise. It is time these amateurs be unmasked.
-Ludwig von Mises

The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to the army within the political structure. Even in peacetime the army is supreme; it is the predominant factor in political life. The subjects must obey the government as soldiers must obey their superiors. Within a militarist community there is no freedom; there are only obedience and discipline
-Ludwig von Mises


As society is only possible if everyone, while living his own life, at the same time helps others to live; if every individual is simultaneously means and end; if each individual's well-being is simultaneously the condition necessary to the well-being of others, it is evident that the contrast between I and thou, means and end, automatically is overcome.
-Ludwig von Mises

Marxism... exploded liberal fallacies- which really were fallacies. It taught the bitter truth that progress is not automatic, that boom and bust are inherent in capitalism, that social injustice and racial discrimination are not cured merely by the passage of time and that power politics cannot be 'abolished', but only used for good or bad ends
-Arthur Koestler

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer
-Bertrand Russel

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed.
-Immanuel Kant