Some men take it while other men are taken

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Winston Churchill

Writing is thinking

"The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our true responsibility

"We are responsible for the quality of our vision, we have a say in the shaping of our sensibility. In the many thousand daily choices we make, we create ourselves and the voice with which we speak and work."
- Carolyn Forche

Know "thyself"

"I do not know myself and God forbid that I should."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ever thought of that?

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

Napoleon

Slippery slope

Ludwig von Mises: "Once the principle is admitted that it is duty of government to protect the individual against his own foolishness, no serious objections can be advanced against further encroachments." - Human Action

Change is not the same as progress

Change is not always progress.... A fever of newness had been everywhere confused with the spirit of progress.

- Henry Ford