"Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place to live - not even for the poor on welfare, whose condition seems not noticeably better than when they were poor and off welfare. Something appears to have gone wrong; a liberal and compassionate social policy has bred all sorts of unanticipated and perverse consequences."

-- Irving Kristol

#Country Quotes #Nice Quotes #People Quotes

“It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.”

Source : The Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski (2005). “The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future”, p.10, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.
“Hitler overestimated the importance of [technology]. As a result, he would count on a mere handful of assault-gun detachment or the new Tiger tanks to restore situations where only large bodies of troops could have any prospect of success.”
“I don't attach importance to great speeches or philosophy.”
“There is not a grain of dust, not an atom that can become nothing, yet man believes that death is the annhilation of his being.”
“Mothers play an important role as the heart of the home, but this in no way lessens the equally important role fathers should play, as head of the home, in nurturing, training, and loving their children.”
“All mankind is now learning that these nuclear weapons can only serve to destroy, never become beneficial.”
“I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.”
“I was very, very fortunate. I knew that. I've always known that.”

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