What Would Ragnar Say? It's International Speak Like A Pirate Day!

Posted by Eudaimonia 12 years, 7 months ago to Culture
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Give me your best Ragnar Danneskjold quotes.

Keep them to 100 characters or less, and I'll post them to the twitter speaklikeapirate channel!


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  • Posted by 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Still too big... :(
    With all the hashtags and ats, the tweet can be no more than 65 characters.
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  • Posted by khalling 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When robbery is done in ...daylight by sanction of the law...honor is hidden underground.
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  • Posted by 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Ayn Rand Institute just retweeted this.
    And their retweet got a retweet.

    Gotta hit that channel with more.
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  • Posted by 12 years, 7 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Eudaimonia Rick ‏@eudaimoniarick
    #TalkLikeAPirateDay Are you thinking that death and taxes are our only certainty? - Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3 @AtlasShrugged @arinstitute
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  • Posted by gblaze47 12 years, 7 months ago
    "Are you thinking that death and taxes are our only certainty.....? Well, there's nothing I can do about the first, but if I lift the burden of the second, men might learn to see the connection between the two and what a longer, happier life they have the power to achieve. They might learn to hold, not death and taxes, but life and production as their two absolutes and as the base of their moral code."
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  • Posted by gblaze47 12 years, 7 months ago
    "Robin Hood is not remembered as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became a symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, had demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors. It is this foulest of creatures – the double-parasite who lives on the sores of the poor and the blood of the rich – whom men have come to regard as the moral idea." ". . . Do you wonder why the world is collapsing around us? That is what I am fighting, Mr. Rearden. Until men learn that of all human symbols, Robin Hood is the most immoral and the most contemptible, there will be no justice on earth and no way for mankind to survive"
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  • Posted by 12 years, 7 months ago
    Just tweeted this.

    Eudaimonia Rick ‏@eudaimoniarick
    #TalkLikeAPirateDay When robbery becomes the purpose of the law... it is an outlaw who has to become a policeman. - Ragnar Danneskjold #ASP3
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