Purity

by | Nov 5, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Reducing truly dangerous amounts of impurities from water or air may be done at costs that most people would agree were quite reasonable. But, as higher and higher standards of purity are prescribed by government, in order to eliminate ever more minute traces of ever...

Capitalism & Socialism

by | Nov 4, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. To this day, this error and its disastrous consequences are observable in the judgment and behavior of some...

Progress

by | Nov 3, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress…” ― John Muir

Assisted Suicide

by | Nov 2, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“The law of assisted suicide offers the freedom of the atomized individual will in response to the vulnerability, dependence, fragility, and natural limits of embodied life as it nears its end. What it offers concretely is the freedom to choose self-annihilation as a...

Term Limits

by | Nov 1, 2025 | Quotes and Quips

“Congress has been abdicating its powers to the executive for decades, no matter the party in power. Maybe we should consider why winning a seat in Congress has become akin to winning the lottery. Enter the Legislature poor and young, leave a multimillionaire after a...