"When misguided public opinion honors what is despicable and despises what is honorable, punishes virtue and rewards vice, encourages what is harmful and discourages what is useful, applauds falsehood and smothers truth under indifference or insult, a nation turns its back on progress and can be restored only by the terrible lessons of catastrophe."

-- Frederic Bastiat

#Political Quotes #Honor Quotes #Progress Quotes

“Someone needs to explain to me why wanting clean drinking water makes you an activist, and why proposing to destroy water with chemical warfare doesnt make a corporation a terrorist”

Source : "Canadian Oil Companies Trample on Our Rights" by Winona LaDuke, progressive.org. June 18, 2013.
“Crimes are more effectually prevented by the certainty than the severity of punishment”
“I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.”
“I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.”
“It’s over me like a ton of water, the things I don’t know.”

Source : Gina Berriault (1996). “Women in their beds: new and selected stories”, Counterpoint LLC
“There's no such thing as a minor lapse of awareness. You're either present with what is--right here, right now--or you're someplace else.”
“If you've done what you need to do, you need to go bury yourself, because what else are you going to do? I think that that's where life stops.”

Source : Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. May 5, 2011.
“As far as we can look back into history, the downfall of any nation can be traced from the moment that nation became timid about spending its best blood.”

Source : Frederick Russell Burnham, Mary Nixon Everett (1944). “Taking chances”

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