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, March 21, 2020

DON'T STEP BACK!

My foot was about to step into a plastic tub filled with snakes. Poisonous brown snakes. A small man was on his haunches, grabbing snakes by the head, then shoving the head down on a board that had a nail sticking out. The head was pierced by the nail. Then the snakes were gutted and skinned. It was done very fast. I was busy watching the strange animal varieties that were being butchered for market and I hadn't paid attention to what was happening behind me at ground level. I did not see any bats prepared for meals, but just about everything else.
My guide took me to an open air food market in Shenzhen, China. This was in the last century when it was still a provincial border outpost of, what was then, Canton Province. At that time, they were still calling Peking, Peking.


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