Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Angela Davis; Toni Morrison, Two Commies Distorting the Life of Frederick Douglass


Angela Davis; Toni Morrison

About the Program

Angela Davis presents a critical edition of Frederick Douglass' memoir,Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - An American Slave Written By Himself. Ms. Davis explores the abolitionists intellectual life and recalls the several other editions of Douglass' memoir. Angela Davis is joined in conversation with Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Toni Morrison at the New York Public Library in New York City.

About the Authors

Angela Davis

Angela Davis is the author of numerous books, including Angela Davis: An AutobiographyandWomen, Race, and Class. Ms. Davis is professor emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California Santa Cruz.

Toni Morrison

Toni Morrison won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for her novel Belovedand in 1993 was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Ms. Morrison is the author of numerous books, including Sula and The Bluest Eye. She is professor emerita at Princeton University.

Booktv sanitised the two Biographies a bit.

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