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

Wednesday, March 18, 2020

Sheltering in Place - Self Imposed Quarantine



There is a strong possibility that we should be less fearful of the "Coronavirus, Chinese Virus, Wuhan Virus, or “Kung Flu,” for mortality than we should be from each other. We may go back to Chaucer, who noted that "Familiarity Breeds Contempt" in his "Tale of Melibee".
Right now in the US and Territories, from CDC numbers, there are 7,038 Corona infected patients and 97 deaths.
There could be many more deaths from the ancillary cause of being forced to live with people we usually only see part of the time. Quite suddenly we are on top of one another day in and day out. Nerves get raw in a raw situation, especially when there are enforced limited options as to where we may go to escape, if only temporarily.
I wonder which will have a greater toll?
Memento Mori

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