The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.
–George Orwell, 1984
Tag: Quotes
At First, Freedom Seems Like A Good Trading Chip
At first, freedom seems like a good trading chip. First it’s traded for food, then for things not getting worse (stability), then for safety–and only much later does it turn out that you have no food, safety, stability, or freedom.
-Vladimir Voinovich
We Always May Be What We Might Have Been
No star is ever lost we once have seen,
We always may be what we might have been.-Adelaide Anne Procter, The Ghost in the Picture Room, 1859.
Milton Friedman on the Drug War
If you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.
-Milton Friedman, America’s Drug Forum Interview, 1991
Eisenhower on Leadership
And I tell you this: you do not lead by hitting people over the head. Any damn fool can do that, but it’s usually called “assault”–not
“leadership.”–Dwight Eisenhower, quoted in The Ordeal of Power: a political memoir of the Eisenhower years, Emmet John Hughes, 1963, p.124.
He Who Takes Offense
He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.-Unknown
This quote is frequently attributed to Brigham Young, of all people, but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that he said or wrote this.