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I’ve worked out a use for Stephen Byers. If you take the intellectual rigour of John Major, the financial probity of the late Robert Maxwell, the sense of public service of Neil Hamilton and the integrity of Stephen Byers, you get… President Jacques Chirac!
– Antoine Clarke
We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.
-Mark Twain
Sharon Stone is looking pretty damn good for someone recovering from a stroke!
And what is this nonsense about the self styled ‘American Jewish Congress’ urging Jews to boycott the Cannes Film Festival because ‘the French are anti-Semitic’? And which ‘French’ would that be? The 80% who did not vote for Le Pen? Spare us the collectivist crap, guys… I do not see why a foreign Jewish organisation should feel the need to provide the neo-Nazi barking moonbats in France with an excuse to say ‘See? Those mean old Jews are boycotting all of France!’ Duh.
In the linked article, it also says ‘satirist Michael Moore’ is making a documentary about the Columbine school massacre. But satire requires wit and insight, so I guess there must be more than one Michael Moore because the only one I know of is a talentless ignorant prick, not a satirist.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil, in its worst state an in tolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamities is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer!
-Thomas Paine, Common Sense (1776)
There’s nothing like a Socialist to get someone who really despises the Working Class, is there?
-Ian Hislop (on the programme ‘Have I got news for you’) addressing socialist Mark Steel who had just been pouring scorn on the huge number of working class people who turned out for the Queen Mother’s funeral
via David Harthill
“If you can’t see a woman in a bikini that’s your problem. You can’t force them to cover up just because you can’t control yourself.”
-Malaysian Tourism Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir blasts Terengannu’s state government, which is led by the Islamic party, PAS, for its “Taliban-like” plan to ban tourists from wearing bikinis.
Because in the end, even Germaine Greer calls the cops, not Simone de Beauvoir, when she’s personally, physically threatened in the real world.
– Jack Robertson
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
-Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign
– John Stuart Mill, On Liberty, 1859
Definition of a ‘barking moonbat’: someone who sacrifices sanity for the sake of consistency.
– Adriana Cronin
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman
– John Stuart Mill
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
– Lily Tomlin
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We are also a varied group made up of social individualists, classical liberals, whigs, libertarians, extropians, futurists, ‘Porcupines’, Karl Popper fetishists, recovering neo-conservatives, crazed Ayn Rand worshipers, over-caffeinated Virginia Postrel devotees, witty Frédéric Bastiat wannabes, cypherpunks, minarchists, kritarchists and wild-eyed anarcho-capitalists from Britain, North America, Australia and Europe.
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