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The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny. – James Madison, Federalist Paper No. 47 October 30th, 2006 | 16 comments - (Comments are closed)
 If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences. – H. P. Lovecraft For me this quote can really be applied to almost any set of beliefs. October 29th, 2006 | 37 comments - (Comments are closed)
October 28th, 2006 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
Those atheists, people of the book (Christians and Jews), where will they end up? In Surfers Paradise? On the Gold Coast? Where will they end up? In hell and not part-time, for eternity. They are the worst in God’s creation. – Sheikh Taj Din Al Hilaly, widely noted as Australia’s most senior Muslim cleric and an assumed <sigh> moderate Muslim, unintentionally explains why multiculturalism is quite a bad idea. The Sheikh had, in the same sermon, described unveiled and outgoing (as in leaving the house) women as “uncovered meat”, and that “if she had not left the meat uncovered, the cat wouldn’t have snatched it.” Rape away, gents. October 26th, 2006 | 32 comments - (Comments are closed)
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October 23rd, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
If it is to survive, democracy must recognise that it is not the fountainhead of justice and that it needs to acknowledge a conception of justice which does not necessarily manifest itself in the popular view on every particular issue – Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty October 22nd, 2006 | 14 comments - (Comments are closed)
The constitution and laws of a State are rarely attacked from the front; it is against secret and gradual attacks that a Nation must chiefly guard. Sudden resolutions strike men’s imagination; their history is written, and their secret sources made known; but changes are overlooked when they come about insensibly by a series of steps which are scarcely noted. One would do great service to Nations by showing from history how many States have thus changed their whole nature and lost their original constitution. – Emmerich de Vattel, The Laws of Nations or Principles of Natural Law, 1758 October 21st, 2006 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
With our troops safely back, the people of Iraq can then begin building a faith-based society emphasizing the same traditional values that motivate conservatives like you: women at home, prayer in school, capital punishment for homos. – Howard Dean (channelled by blogging über-wit Iowahawk) is sniffing out votes in unlikely places. October 19th, 2006 | 9 comments - (Comments are closed)
The quote of the day slot is already taken, but this would have been my choice, had the choice still been mine to make:
That’s from Sir Alan (A.P.) Herbert. Samizdata mostly manages to avoid ghastly hushes. October 18th, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
I cannot have a situation where businesses close haphazardly. – Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP, speaking on Radio 4’s Today programme about the Sub-Post Office network, and neatly demonstrating the dirigiste mentality of the Scottish Raj October 18th, 2006 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
If reality contradicts your thoughts, that’s delusion. If your thoughts contradict your actions, that’s madness. If reality contradicts your actions, that’s defeat, frustration, self-destruction. And no sane being wants delusion, madness and destruction. – From the Golden Transcendence, John C. Wright, page 212 October 16th, 2006 | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)
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