Alex Epstein Quotes

#1. America was founded on the principle of inalienable rights, not dictated duties. The Declaration of Independence states that every human being has a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. It does not state that he is born a slave to the needs of others.

Alex Epstein

#2. All the studies show that the best age to die is eighty. It's long enough that we can have a complete life experience, but not so long that we feel useless.

Ally Condie

#3. Resources are not taken from nature, but created from nature,

Alex Epstein

#4. I think human beings have evolved to appreciate narrative, in the same way that we have evolved to learn language. What is narrative, after all, but a kind of super-language, where stories, like words, are ways of encapsulating information?

Alex Epstein

#5. A poem without metaphor is a gelding; useless to nightmares.

David Joseph Cribbin

#6. If Republicans truly are dedicated to the sanctity of life, they should be the first ones on the front lines trying to get policies for the uninsured.

Kurt Eichenwald

#7. [The Center for Industrial Progress'] model allows us to keep conflicts of interest to an absolute minimum as we do our research and writing. As for our relationship with the fossil fuel industry, it's the same as everyone else - they pay for our ideas, we never accept money to voice theirs.

Alex Epstein

#8. Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state.

Bob Cousy

#9. My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

#10. The single thought that can empower us to empower the world: Mankind's use of fossil fuels is supremely virtuous-because the human life is the standard of value, and because using fossil fuels transforms our environment to make it wonderful for human life.

Alex Epstein

#11. I believe the evidence is clear that nuclear is the safest energy technology

Alex J. Epstein

#12. I am proud to work with the fossil fuel industry. I think it has historically done a horrible job of educating the public and I think my ideas will help it make a better case for freedom.

Alex Epstein

#13. A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular, but then, freedom of speech also carries with it the freedom not to listen!

Ashwin Sanghi

#14. The Commerce Clause has already been inflated so much that we basically can't do anything without the government's permission.

Alex Epstein

#15. The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Rick Warren

#16. But grant, the virtues of a temp'rate prime
Bless with an age exempt from scorn or crime;
An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest Innocence away

Samuel Johnson

#17. Our lives depend on recognizing that human cloning, like all forms of 'playing God,' is a moral, life-promoting endeavor.

Alex Epstein

#18. One point I like to stress is that we should think of coal, oil, natural gas, and nuclear, as clean energy.

Alex Epstein

#19. To attribute rights to animals is to ignore the purpose and justification of rights - to protect the interests of man.

Alex Epstein