Words of wisdom for today
What word or words of wisdom are yours today? This is mine from The Virtue of Selfishness.
Remember that values are that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and that one's own happiness has to be achieved by one's own effort.
Remember that values are that which one acts to gain and/or keep, and that one's own happiness has to be achieved by one's own effort.
The movie, "Hamburger Hill":
The sergeant overhears his troops talking about pop culture back home, and one asserts that he's gonna get him some of that "free love" he's bear hearing so much about.
The sergeant talks about how, back home, they wear love buttons on their shirts, and the various things they love.
(from memory) "...yeah, they love everybody back there... everybody but you".
I was thinking of that with regard to all our foreign enemies that Obama seems bent on appeasing... at the expense of our poor boys in uniform.
So, he loves the Moslem Brotherhood, he loves the Taliban, he loves the Russians... he seems to love everybody but his own effing country...
The Golden Pinnacle
Will Do The Plowing For Those Who Don't.
This Booklet is dedicated to
Those Who Won't.
The first quote is from Benjamin Franklin, I think.
The dedication is on a booklet entitled "The Myth of Police Protection" by Gary Smith, Arizona
Actually I think my corollary is cribbed from an old political saying, something about trying to be all things to all men...
For The New Intellectual
"He who defends all, defends nothing"
- Frederick the Great
"He who loves all, loves no one."
- Me
(yes, still tired, aching worn-out and discouraged, and now increasingly bitter...)
Ah... I think I have it... maybe...
" It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them."
- Niccolo Machiavelli.
But, being tired, aching, worn-out and discouraged this morning, I have to comment on another, related Machiavelli quote:
"Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great."
To which I respond....
Bullllllllllllllllllllllllllllllsh*t.