Christopher Hodapp > Christopher's Quotes

“It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.”
― Frederick Bastiat, The Law

“A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but the foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.”
― Ecclesiastes 10 2

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
― C. S. Lewis

“I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.”
― Fred Rogers

“The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.”
― William Jennings Bryan

“O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“It sounds harmless to say, as most modern people have said: "Actions are only wrong if they are bad for society." Follow it out, and sooner or later you will have the inhumanity of a hive.”
― G. K. Cherston

“The only difference between a rut and the grave is the depth.”
― Christopher L. Hodapp, Freemasons For Dummies