Wendy McElroy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'
-- Wendy McElroy

#Believe #Voice #Political
A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Choices #Doe #Virtue
As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Character #Important #Action Not Words
Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Freedom #Mean #Self
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Political #Abuse #Kicking
The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.
-- Wendy McElroy

#School #People #Goal
It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Men #Unjust #Particular
A coerced "choice" does not reflect virtue, only compliance.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Choices #Doe #Virtue
We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.
-- Wendy McElroy

#Years #Models

I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
Hello Rush," she said, breaking the silence. The sound of her voice almost sent me to my knees. God, I'd missed her voice. "Blaire," I managed to say, terrified that I'd scare her away just by speaking.
But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.
When religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion, its message becomes meaningless.
To sing means to sense and to affirm that the spirit is real and that its glory is present.
The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within â€” and make the point: This can be done.
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.

Wendy McElroy famous quotes

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