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

Monday, April 4, 2011

John Steinbeck's acclaimed travelogue Travels with Charley was fabricated ...as well as boring!

'Travel with Charley' (the Poodle) was really sort of a novel with bad dialogue.
In Dubious Travels - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
So Steinbeck was getting on embellished his happy wanderings with his Poodle. Poodle? With Steinbeck; that never fit.
This book was popular tripe amongst secondary school English and Social Studies teachers. Fact checking it really matters little in its minor scope and significance. Charles Kuralt copied Steinbeck's travel style, making it more boring, politically relevant and as it turned out, it gave Kuralt opportunity to keep his mistress. That was more interesting. Go to the story link here.

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