"Now if you ask me, in conclusion, "Well, what, then should properly be done?" Obviously war, but I mean in regard to this issue I would say: Any way possible permission should be refused and if they go ahead and build it, the government should bomb it out of existence, evacuating it first, with no compensation to any of the property owners involved in this monstrosity."

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Source : "What do you think of the plan for a mosque in New York City near Ground Zero?". Podcast, June 28, 2010.

Leonard Peikoff

#War Quotes #Mean Quotes #Government Quotes

“Most photographers seem to operate with a pane of glass between themselves and their subjects. They just can't get inside and know the subject.”
“We can be creative and generate new breakthroughs, if we're willing to work with ideas from the pool of history - both distant and more recent - despite the potential for our experiments to fail.”
“As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.”
“Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.”
“I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.”

Source : "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.
“I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.”
“During the Mavelmania days in the late '60's I got a phone call one evening and I answered it and this voice said, "Mike Royer? This is Jack Kirby. Word is you're a pretty good inker." That's how it started.”
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”

Source : Grace Paley (2014). “The Collected Stories”, p.334, Macmillan

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