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Organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.
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To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic…
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Washington politicians basically view the People as a capricious and dangerous enemy, a dumb mob whose only interesting quality happens to be…
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The Congressional Record will forever show that [Obamacare] was passed in a romper room of overgrown children seemingly barely old enough to…
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There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small…
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For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional…
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Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using…
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Being in the building with Sarah Palin that night is a transformative and oddly unsettling experience. It’s a little like having live…
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The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel…
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The significance of Columbus's discovery was that on a round earth, humanity is more interconnected than on a flat one. On a…
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Sniper is a movie whose politics are so ludicrous and idiotic that under normal circumstances it would be beneath criticism. The only…
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The national debt is totally unlike a family budget for about a gazillion reasons, not the least of which being that families…
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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the…
— Peter Brimelow
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Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests.…
— Marie Curie
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Collectivism holds that the individual has no rights, that his life and work belong to the group (to "society," to the tribe,…
— Ayn Rand
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For He is in the midst of us day and night [in the Blessed Sacrament]; He dwells in us with the fullness…
— Pope Paul VI
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Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others.
— Unknown Author
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I think self-knowledge is a key to happiness.We can build happy lives only on the foundation of our own natures, our own…
— Gretchen Rubin
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Smart people instinctively understand the dangers of entrusting our future to self-serving leaders who use our institutions, whether in the corporate or…
— James C. Collins
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The people can never willfully betray their own interests: But they may possibly be betrayed by the representatives of the people; and…
— James Madison
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He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity
— Confucius
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Their suffering is intense, widespread, expanding, systematic and socially sanctioned. And the victims are unable to organize in defence of their own…
— Henry Spira
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They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put…
— John Hume
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Men are less hesitant about harming someone who makes himself loved than one who makes himself feared because love is held together…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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