"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people"

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Source : Penn Jillette (1997). “Penn & Teller's how to Play in Traffic”, Boulevard

Penn Jillette

#Government Quotes #Rights Quotes #Safety Quotes

“Soldiers who had been in the army long enough to know what a bloody swindle war really is would begin to feel that army life was really kind of fun, as long as [General Philip] Sheridan was up front.”
“If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.”
“Because education is such a broad area, I chose to focus on language learning.”
“When there is crime in society, there is no justice.”
“I refuse to accept the idea that the 'is-ness' of a man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the 'ought-ness' that forever confronts him.”
“How do we attack important problems? Pose the right question.”

Source : "Innovating Dirt Cheap: What Sadoway Can Teach Us About The Future Of Clean Energy" by Loukia Papadopoulos, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2016.
“When I was a little kid, my parents would show me Marx Brothers films and westerns and stuff like that. Thats where all my desire to be an actor comes from and probably most of my understanding of acting comes from for sure.”
“It is good to divert our sorrow for other things to the root of all, which is sin. Let our grief run most in that channel, that as sin bred grief, so grief may consume sin.”

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