Rita Mae Brown

Rita Mae Brown (1944-) is an American writer, poet, novelist, and civil rights activist. She is known for her autobiographical "coming of age" novel Rubyfruit Jungle, which was one of the early popular portrayals of lesbianism.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Venus Envy

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

Like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool that repeats his folly.

Holy Bible

The consequences of an action do not increase its goodness or malice.

Thomas Aquinas

Men must change with the times or die.

Saul Alinsky

I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

Robert A. Heinlein

Spread love everywhere you go. . . . Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Teresa of Calcutta

The transformation of the world is brought about by the transformation of oneself.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Virtue lies in our power, and similarly so does vice; because where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power not to act.

Aristotle

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Thomas Carlyle

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

Will Rogers

The state does not create wealth; the state destroys it. The state can give you nothing because it produces nothing, and when it attempts it, it does so poorly.

Javier Milei

One of the grand fallacies of our time is that something beneficial should be subsidized.

Thomas Sowell

Freedom can move in only one direction at a time. If a man [spends ten dollars] on a night of celebration he has thereby lost the freedom to spend that same ten dollars on some new clothes. Once the choice is made, a person is not free to avoid the consequences. . . .

W. Cleon Skousen

A modest man is steady, a humble man timid, and a vain one presumptuous.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

In truth, mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them.

Bernard Shaw

When the law contradicts what most people regard as moral and proper, they will break the law. . . .

Milton Friedman

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.

Edmund Burke

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Elbert Hubbard

An idealist believes that the short run doesn’t count. A cynic believes the long run doesn’t matter. A realist believes . . . the short run determines the long run.

Sydney J. Harris

To countenance abortion is not to respect women’s ‘privacy’ or liberty; it is to suppose that some people have the right to decide whether others will live or die.

Robert George

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