Karl Hess Quotes

#1. Remember: A best-selling book usually follows a simple rule, It's a wonderful story, wonderfully told; not, It's a wonderfully told story.

Nicholas Sparks

#2. I would rather clean than beg.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#3. When you put your faith in big government, you end up an apologist for mass murder.

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#4. The fundamental question of politics has always been whether there should be politics.

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#5. To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.

Karl Hess

#6. The simple-hearted and sincere never do more than half deceive themselves.

Joseph Joubert

#7. The most revolutionary thing you can do is get to know your neighbors.

Karl Hess

#8. No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person. Teacher, perhaps. Setter of good example, perhaps. Genius, perhaps. But master, no.

Karl Hess

#9. It's a wonderful thing to find a great teacher, but you also have to find him or her at a time in life when you're able to listen to, trust, and implement the lessons you receive.

Ann Patchett

#10. All who love Liberty are enemies of the state.

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#11. Liberty, finally, is not a box into which people are to be forced. Liberty is a space in which people may live. It does not tell you how they will live. It says, eternally, only that we can.

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#12. I'd got to a point where I wanted a break.

Simon Armitage

#13. A 7-11 parking lot beat down is how life is.

Karl Hess

#14. The dinosaurs invented Jesus to test our confidence in science.

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#15. There's no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.

Dorothy Salisbury Davis

#16. Once you enhance your inner vision with deep meditation, you may be able to see your inner beauty and inner universe.

Debasish Mridha

#17. In a laissez-faire society, there could exist no public institution with the power to forcefully protect people from themselves. From other people (criminals), yes. From one's own self, no.

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#18. The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.

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#19. I am not sure precisely why we need to have privacy, but everyone knows for sure that we need to relax and not have to put on our social, outwardly looking face all of the time.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#20. Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

Karl Hess

#21. If there's hell below, we're all gonna go.

Curtis Mayfield

#22. We're all looking for a plan that will work. The current plan is not working, and 21,500 additional troops
it's a snowball in July. It's not going to work.

Arlen Specter

#23. We do not want to lead or be led. We want to be free.

Karl Hess

#24. Libertarianism is rejected by the modern left - which preaches individualism but practices collectivism. Capitalism is rejected by the modern right-which preaches enterprise but practices protectionism.

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#25. The music I make and the process of acting, for me, are both about trying to understand people and get inside what makes us tick. That's the main thing that excites me. Our sense of who we really are and what drives us.

Riz Ahmed

#26. Know this: If you are afraid of starting over, it means you have not yet begun.

Tehya Sky

#27. We treat them in the same way. Those who kill our women and innocent, we kill their women and innocent, until they refrain.

Osama Bin Laden

#28. Everybody knows that the federal government promises a lot and delivers damn little, and pays for most of what it does deliver out of the earnings of individuals rather than the profits of great corporations.

Karl Hess