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Quotes of the day from previous years:
In countries and epochs in which communication is impeded, soon all other liberties wither; discussion dies by inanition, ignorance of the opinion of others becomes rampant, imposed opinions triumph. … Intolerance is inclined to censor, and censorship promotes ignorance of the arguments of others and thus intolerance itself: a rigid, vicious circle that is hard to break. |
~ Primo Levi ~ |
The free man will ask neither what his country can do for him nor what he can do for his country. He will ask rather "What can I and my compatriots do through government" to help us discharge our individual responsibilities, to achieve our several goals and purposes, and above all, to protect our freedom? And he will accompany this question with another: How can we keep the government we create from becoming a Frankenstein that will destroy the very freedom we establish it to protect? Freedom is a rare and delicate plant. Our minds tell us, and history confirms, that the great threat to freedom is the concentration of power. Government is necessary to preserve our freedom, it is an instrument through which we can exercise our freedom; yet by concentrating power in political hands, it is also a threat to freedom. Even though the men who wield this power initially be of good will and even though they be not corrupted by the power they exercise, the power will both attract and form men of a different stamp. |
~ Milton Friedman ~ |
It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all — in which case, you fail by default. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
The wizards represent all that the true "muggle" most fears: They are plainly outcasts and comfortable with being so. Nothing is more unnerving to the truly conventional than the unashamed misfit! |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
NEVER let your guard down! You expect a battle to be fair! — A battle will never be fair! |
~ "Antiope" ~ in ~ Wonder Woman (2017 film) ~ |
A country is considered the more civilised the more the wisdom and efficiency of its laws hinder a weak man from becoming too weak and a powerful one too powerful. |
~ Primo Levi ~ |
Those who choose not to empathize enable real monsters; for without ever committing an act of outright evil ourselves, we collude with it through our own apathy. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general it is understood completely only when it is broken: by exile or emigration in the case of one's country, by retirement in the case of a trade or profession. |
~ Primo Levi ~ |
One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results. |
~ Milton Friedman ~ |
If you could come inside my head and understand what I feel when I read about a trans woman dying at the hands of a violent man, you'd find solidarity and kinship. I have a visceral sense of the terror in which those trans women will have spent their last seconds on earth, because I too have known moments of blind fear when I realised that the only thing keeping me alive was the shaky self-restraint of my attacker. I believe the majority of trans-identified people not only pose zero threat to others, but are vulnerable for all the reasons I've outlined. Trans people need and deserve protection. Like women, they're most likely to be killed by sexual partners. … So I want trans women to be safe. At the same time, I do not want to make natal girls and women less safe. When you throw open the doors of bathrooms and changing rooms to any man who believes or feels he's a woman — and, as I've said, gender confirmation certificates may now be granted without any need for surgery or hormones — then you open the door to any and all men who wish to come inside. That is the simple truth. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
We're living through the most misogynistic period I've experienced. … Everywhere, women are being told to shut up and sit down, or else. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends. |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ in ~ Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ~ |
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
Critiques of Western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance, or who jail and poison their critics. #IStandWithUkraine |
~ J. K. Rowling ~ |
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In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: "to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be taken away." ~ Primo Levi
The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. All was well. ~ J. K. Rowling
With some notable exceptions, businessmen favor free enterprise in general but are opposed to it when it comes to themselves. ~ Milton Friedman
Governments never learn. Only people learn. ~ Milton Friedman
In this day and age, we need to revise the old saying to read, "Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned." ~ Milton Friedman
I want people to take thought about their condition and to recognize that the maintenance of a free society is a very difficult and complicated thing and it requires a self-denying ordinance of the most extreme kind. It requires a willingness to put up with temporary evils on the basis of the subtle and sophisticated understanding that if you step in to do something about them you not only may make them worse, you will spread your tentacles and get bad results elsewhere. ~ Milton Friedman
I think the government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem and very often makes the problem worse. ~ Milton Friedman
I’m in favor of legalizing drugs. According to my values system, if people want to kill themselves, they have every right to do so. Most of the harm that comes from drugs is because they are illegal. ~ Milton Friedman
The society that puts equality before freedom will end up with neither. The society that puts freedom before equality will end up with a great measure of both. ~ Milton Friedman
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