Tag: Thought

1424: Antony Davies – About Unintended Consequences

W1424: Antony Davies - About Unintended Consequences
The thing about unintended consequences is it doesn't matter whether your intent is good, it doesn't matter whether the regulation that you're imposing is well thought out, it doesn't matter whether lots of people are in favor of the regulation. It is the fact that the coercion takes away from people their abilities to make decisions for themselves that causes the unintended consequence. —Antony Davies
The thing about unintended consequences is it doesn't matter whether your intent is good, it doesn't matter whether the regulation that you're imposing is well thought out, it doesn't matter whether lots of people are in favor of the regulation. It is the fact that the coercion takes away from people their abilities to make decisions for themselves that causes the unintended consequence. —Antony Davies Download Print Quality (7680×4020) 196KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 108KB
The thing about unintended consequences is it doesn't matter whether your intent is good, it doesn't matter whether the regulation that you're imposing is well thought out, it doesn't matter whether lots of people are in favor of the regulation. It is the fact that the coercion takes away from people their abilities to make decisions for themselves that causes the unintended consequence. —Antony Davies Download Print Quality (7680×7680) 277KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×3840) 144KB

The thing about unintended consequences is it doesn’t matter whether your intent is good, it doesn’t matter whether the regulation that you’re imposing is well thought out, it doesn’t matter whether lots of people are in favor of the regulation. It is the fact that the coercion takes away from people their abilities to make decisions for themselves that causes the unintended consequence. —Antony Davies

1419: Caitlin Johnstone – Being Anti-War

W1419: Caitlin Johnstone - Being Anti-War
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. JohnstoneDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 224KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 133KB
Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. JohnstoneDownload Print Quality (6146×7680) 286KB  |  Normal Quality (3073×3840) 155KB

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts.

Virtually everyone will tell you they love peace and hate war; war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it.

But when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to oppose war and push for peace, those who’d previously proclaimed themselves “anti-war” are on the other side screaming for more weapons to be poured into a proxy war that their government deliberately provoked.

This is because the theory of being anti-war is very different from the practice. — Caitlin A. Johnstone

1413: Frederic Bastiat – The Law Defends Plunder

W1413: Frederic Bastiat - The Law Defends Plunder
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic Bastiat
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic BastiatDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 2.34MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 247KB
Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic BastiatDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 3.26MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 297KB

Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons, and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim — when he defends himself — as a criminal. —Frederic Bastiat

1294: Thomas Sowell – One Honest Man

W1294: Thomas Sowell – One Honest Man
It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. —Thomas Sowell
It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. —Thomas SowellDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 4.62MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 282KB
It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. —Thomas SowellDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 6.06MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 364KB

It is amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. —Thomas Sowell

1292: Frederic Bastiat – The Socialists

F1292: Frederic Bastiat – The Socialists
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. —Frederic Bastiat
We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain. —Frederic BastiatDownload Print Quality (5540×7680) 910KB  |  Normal Quality (2770×3840) 758KB

1269: Tim Pool – Lies of the Establishment

W1269: Tim Pool – Lies of the Establishment
Fauci will be one of the greatest tools in waking people up to the lies of the establishment. —Tim Pool
Fauci will be one of the greatest tools in waking people up to the lies of the establishment. —Tim PoolDownload Print Quality (3840×2010) 8.53MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1005) 311KB
Fauci will be one of the greatest tools in waking people up to the lies of the establishment. —Tim PoolDownload Print Quality (3840×2744) 10.96MB  |  Normal Quality (1920×1372) 405KB

Fauci will be one of the greatest tools in waking people up to the lies of the establishment. —Tim Pool

1231: Thomas Sowell – We’re Raising Kids Who Regard Facts as Optional

W1231: Thomas Sowell - We're Raising Kids Who Regard Facts as Optional
I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about. It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. —Thomas Sowell
I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about. It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. —Thomas SowellDownload Print Quality (7680×4020) 291KB  |  Normal Quality (3840×2010) 150KB
I think we're raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. They're not a decade old, and they're being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they're being taught that it's important to have views, and they're not being taught that it's important to know what you're talking about. It's important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. —Thomas SowellDownload Print Quality (5426×7680) 348KB  |  Normal Quality (2713×3840) 172KB

I think we’re raising whole generations who regard facts as more or less optional. We have kids in elementary school who are being urged to take stands on political issues, to write letters to congressmen and presidents about nuclear energy. They’re not a decade old, and they’re being thrown these kinds of questions that can absorb the lifetime of a very brilliant and learned man. And they’re being taught that it’s important to have views, and they’re not being taught that it’s important to know what you’re talking about. It’s important to hear the opposite viewpoint, and more important to learn how to distinguish why viewpoint A and viewpoint B are different, and which one has the most evidence or logic behind it. They disregard that. They hear something, they hear some rhetoric, and they run with it. —Thomas Sowell