“Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered. It’s not entitlement. An entitlement is what people on welfare get, and how free are they? It’s not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the “right” to education, the “right” to food and housing. That’s not freedom, that’s dependency. Those aren’t rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle. There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“The second item in the liberal creed, after self-righteousness, is unaccountability. Liberals have invented whole college majors–psychology, sociology, women’s studies–to prove that nothing is anybody’s fault. No one is fond of taking responsibility for his actions, but consider how much you’d have to hate free will to come up with a political platform that advocates killing unborn babies but not convicted murderers. A callous pragmatist might favor abortion and capital punishment. A devout Christian would sanction neither. But it takes years of therapy to arrive at the liberal view.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we’re looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn’t test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“We had a choice between Democrats who couldn’t learn from the past and Republicans who couldn’t stop living in it…”
― P.J. O’Rourke
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.”
― P.J. O’Rourke
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1 comment:
These kinds of ideas about individual liberty, freedom, accountability, consequences, and the right to self determination are completely over the heads of most people. They either can't wait to be told what to do, what to say, where to be and how to live, or are one of the ones who can't wait to tell YOU those things. Those principles are what our country was FOUNDED upon. Now, they are just old fashioned and out-of-date RADICAL thoughts. "you owe me (fill in the blank here", "its not my fault", and "where's my check?" is the latest fashion now.
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