Jim Butcher: Quote for March 6, 2011

No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruellest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

-- Jim Butcher

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Ann Coulter: Quote for March 5, 2011

We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity. We weren't punctilious about locating and punishing only Hitler and his top officers. We carpet-bombed German cities; we killed civilians. That's war. And this is war.

-- Ann Coulter

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Anne Bradstreet: Quote for March 4, 2011

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

-- Anne Bradstreet

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Friedrich Koenig: Quote for March 3, 2011

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

-- Friedrich Koenig

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Thomas Sydenham: Quote for March 2, 2011

The arrival of a good clown exercises a more beneficial influence upon the health of a town than of twenty asses laden with drugs.

-- Thomas Sydenham

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Peter Kropotkin: Quote for March 1, 2011

America is just the country that how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society.

-- Peter Kropotkin

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Plato: Quote for February 28, 2011

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

-- Plato

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Pope Pius XI: Quote for February 27, 2011

Justice requires that to lawfully constituted Authority there be given that respect and obedience which is its due; that the laws which are made shall be in wise conformity with the common good; and that, as a matter of conscience all men shall render obedience to these laws.

-- Pope Pius XI

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Rosika Schwimmer: Quote for February 26, 2011

I have no sense of nationalism, only a cosmic consciousness of belonging to the human family.

-- Rosika Schwimmer

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Dick Gregory: Quote for February 25, 2011

Baseball is very big with my people. It figures. It's the only way we can get to shake a bat at a white man without starting a riot.

-- Dick Gregory

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Nathaniel Branden: Quote for February 24, 2011

In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their self-esteem are likely to be heroic exceptions.

-- Nathaniel Branden

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Ayn Rand: Quote for February 23, 2011

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion - when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing - when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - you may know that your society is doomed.

-- Ayn Rand

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Rahm Emanuel: Quote for February 22, 2011

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

-- Rahm Emanuel

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Richard Nixon: Quote for February 21, 2011

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

-- Richard Nixon

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W. Somerset Maugham: Quote for February 20, 2011

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we're foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we're still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. If change is of the essence of existence one would have thought it only sensible to make it the premise of our philosophy.

-- W. Somerset Maugham

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