Shang Yang

Gongsun Yang (ca. 390-338 B.C.), or Shang Yang, was a Chinese statesman, chancellor, and reformer. His policies in the Qin state contributed to the unification of China under the Qin dynasty and the installation of the first emperor.

If the people are stupid, they can be easily governed.

The Book of Lord Shang

When the people are weak the state is strong; when the state is weak the people are strong.

The Book of Lord Shang

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I observed . . . that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And . . . the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.

Benjamin Franklin

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

Mignon McLaughlin

The pure, clean water of spiritual truth is placed in rusty containers, and the subsequent failings of the church down through the centuries should not be projected onto the faith itself, as if the water had been the problem.

Francis Collins

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

Aristotle

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

James Madison

If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival.

Winston Churchill

The great political problem in our modern democracy is how to induce our leaders to lead.

Edward Bernays

The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus. There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus.

Michael Crichton

You can miss the target by shooting too high as well as too low.

Saul Alinsky

All generalizations are false, including this one.

Anonymous

For he will render to every man according to his works: to those . . . who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

Paul the Apostle

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Martin Rees

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

A good deed done with a bad motive benefits others, but not the doer.

Henry Steel Olcott

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted!

Fred Allen

An unquenchable, unhappy thirst that brooks no compromise leads us to truth.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism.

Thomas Sowell

Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Fred Brooks

Creation of the universe from absolute and complete nothing marked the beginning of space, time, and matter. Theology has held that position for over three thousand years. Cosmology in the last decade or so has come to agree.

Gerald Schroeder

You know, it doesn’t really matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.

Donald Trump

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