Alan

“Repression by brute force is always a confession of the inability to make use of the better weapons of the intellect—better because they alone give promise of final success.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Liberalism: The Classical Tradition

“Everything is more beautiful because we are doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”
― Brad Pitt

“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”
― Kenneth Rexroth

“The theories of the French revolutionaries, as summarized by historian Roger Hancock, were founded on "respect for no humanity except that which they proposed to create.
In order to liberate mankind from tradition, the revolutionaries were ready to make him altogether the creature of a new society, to reconstruct his very humanity to meet the demands of the general will.”
― Ann Coulter, Demonic: How the Liberal Mob is Endangering America