Thursday, December 04, 2008

Random Quotes

Just a few quotes I've read recently that made me... think.

  • Women should not have children after 35; thirty-five children are enough. -anonymous
  • The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -Thomas Jefferson
  • A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor and bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. -Thomas Jefferson
  • There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.- Albert Einstein
  • To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father’s has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association—the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it. -Thomas Jefferson.
  • If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor. -Albert Einstein
  • Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person. -Albert Einstein

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." -Thomas Jefferson

Maybe Thomas Jefferson was reading 2 Thessalonians when he had that thought...

"...If a man will not work, he shall not eat." 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Farewell capitalism.

Ray