It is impossible for anyone to be responsible for another person's behavior. The most you or any leader can do is to encourage each one to be responsible for himself.
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche.
A committee is the only known form of life with a hundred bellies and no brain.
There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back...
The profession of shaman has many advantages. It offers high status with a safe livelihood free of work in the dreary, sweaty sense. In most societies it offers legal privileges and immunities not granted to other men. But it is hard to see how a man who has been given a mandate from on High to spread tidings of joy to all mankind can be seriously interested in taking up a collection to pay his salary; it causes one to suspect that the shaman is on the moral level of any other con man. But it is a lovely work if you can stomach it.
A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
A religion is a source of happiness and I would not deprive anyone of happiness. But it is a comfort appropriate for the weak, not for the strong--and you are strong. The great trouble with religion--any religion--is that the religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge these propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason--but one cannot have both.
If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
You're in bad shape when your emotions force you into acts which you know are foolish.
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss.
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat.
The Ten Commandments are for lame brains. The first five are solely for the benefit of the priests and the powers that be; the second five are half truths, neither complete nor adequate.
It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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