Llewellyn's Quotes

#1. John Taylor Gatto's extraordinary book, Dumbing Us Down. Check out Mary Griffith's The Unschooling Handbook and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook. Take a look at Home Education Magazine and its website.

Daniel H. Pink

#2. She had an unusual name. She knew that much. It wasn't the kind of name that you found on ceramic coffee mugs at airport gift shops or emblazoned on mini-license plate souvenirs you could hang on your bedroom door after you returned from Disneyland. Her name was pretty and unusual and had meaning.

Melissa De La Cruz

#3. O, the love of woman is a glorious thing, and strange in its ways of work.

Richard Llewellyn

#4. Well, my mother said, and she was not exactly smiling, but as though she was wrapping a smile inside a thought.

Richard Llewellyn

#5. The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds ... for sluggards cannot think, and will not ... Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass ... make us see.

Richard Llewellyn

#6. If a place is in your blood, you leave it at your peril. You will never be happy anywhere else.

Caroline Llewellyn

#7. Sometimes she was even sure that she had ever really existed.

Melissa De La Cruz

#8. Pain is a good cleanser of the mind and therefore of the sight. Matters which seem to mean the world, in health, are found to be of no import when pain is hard upon you.

Richard Llewellyn

#9. Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ...

Dean Koontz

#10. Education is not a race, with winners and losers. It's not a commodity to be bought and sold.

Grace Llewellyn

#11. Before you are much older ... you will have policemen here to stay. A magistrate will be next. Then perhaps even a jail. And the counterparts of those things are hunger and want, and misery and idleness. The night is coming. Watch and pray.

Richard Llewellyn

#12. The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

Richard Llewellyn

#13. What we need is a new consciousness concerning the idea of human liberty.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#14. Among the most urgent political priorities of our age is the separation of economy and state.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#15. Yeah, that sure was Mace Llewellyn staring at her from the other side of her desk. Just staring. Like he used to. Like he knew where she'd buried the bodies of all her goldfish after their unfortunate "accidents" or what she did with her sisters' toothbrushes on more than one occasion.

Shelly Laurenston

#16. The journey towards oneness emphasizes the opposites and we are caught in their conflict.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#17. The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#18. Regardless of what the law or your teachers have to say about this, you are as human as anyone over the age of 18 or 21, yet, 'minors' are one of the most oppressed groups of people in the world, and certainly the most discriminated against legally.

Grace Llewellyn

#19. It is strange that the mind will forget so much, and yet hold a picture of flowers that have been dead for thirty years or more ...

Richard Llewellyn

#20. The beauty and music ... It is a call ... And some are not strong.

Richard Llewellyn

#21. My business is anything that comes between men and the Spirit of God.

Richard Llewellyn

#22. Prayer is only another name for good, clean, direct thinking. When you pray, think well what you are saying, and make your thoughts into things that are solid. In that manner, your prayer will have strength, and that strength shall become part of you, mind, body, and spirit.

Richard Llewellyn

#23. We live and work in a world that carries preoccupations about money, but what does the soul care about such things?

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#24. Without market prices for capital goods, accounting is not possible. You don't know if you are making money or losing money, saving resources or wasting them, doing the right thing or not doing the right thing.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#25. So I went to bed, full, happy, and caring nothing for all the hurt of all the englished Welshmen that ever festered upon a proud land

Richard Llewellyn

#26. When you get down to it, unschooling is really just a fancy term for 'life' or 'growing up uninstitutionalized'.

Grace Llewellyn

#27. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.

Sam Llewellyn

#28. American money was never more sound, or banking more free, than 200 years ago. Since then, it's been a long steady decline from the gold standard and competitive banking to our Fed-run system of inflated paper currency, deposit insurance, and perpetually shaky banks on the dole.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#29. Penny for your thoughts,' asked Gwen.
'Cheapskate,' said Ianto. 'Never heard of inflation? Thoughts are a bit pricier than that these days.'
'OK,' said Gwen. 'A pint down the local tomorrow for your thoughts.'
Ianto smiled. 'That's more like it.

David Llewellyn

#30. Flows that go against the grain with a story so compellin'
I should mind The People's Court, snatch the mic from Doug Llewellyn

Tash

#31. Let all things be done in order, with right and decency. Those things are worth a man's life or two. Life without would be a hell, indeed.

Richard Llewellyn

#32. It 's possible to forgive someone a great deal if he makes you laugh.

Caroline Llewellyn

#33. The only reason for a government service is precisely to provide financial support for an operation that is otherwise unsustainable, or else there would be no point in the government's involvement at all.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#34. She's the hottest pop star since Madonna. I'm gonna break it to you gently, Cuz. You have less than nothing in common. There's more chance of you walking on the moon than claiming her as your Mate. And she's human. Don't you need to mate with a wolf?

Sofia Grey

#35. We like to imagine that in history, truth will prevail through sheer persuasive power. Sadly, this is not the case. Truth needs champions ...

Llewellyn Rockwell

#36. It hurt to think that a boy would not have him at his value of himself.

Richard Llewellyn

#37. It is not caving in to the bees to stop poking a stick into their hive.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#38. Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#39. Nobody should know what's waiting for them. If you knew your future, why ... it would take all the fun out of living.

David Llewellyn

#40. Then sense. Use your sense. Not all of us are born for greatness, but all of us have sense. Make use of it. Think. Think long and well.

Richard Llewellyn

#41. What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#42. The state is a vast enterprise for declaring all sorts of things legal for itself that would be illegal for us.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#43. This work of connecting our light to the world does not need to be done through a mass movement, or by millions of people ... The real work is always done by a small number of individuals. What matters is the level of participation: whether we dare to make a real commitment to the work of the soul.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#44. But you have gone now, all of you that were so beautiful when you were quick with life. Yet not gone, for you are still a living truth inside my mind.
So how are you dead, my brothers and sisters, and all of you , when you live with me as surely as I live with myself.

Richard Llewellyn

#45. Jesper Llewellyn Fahey, that is enough!" Colm roared. (...)
Inej cocked her head to one side. "Jesper Llewellyn Fahey?"
"Shut up," said Jesper. "It's a family name."
Inej made a solemn bow. "Whatever you say, Llewellyn.

Leigh Bardugo

#46. Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

Richard Llewellyn

#47. American federalism was the embodiment of political tolerance and decentralization - the expression of the liberal conviction that society can manage itself and needs no central plan.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#48. It's a hard truth for Americans to face, that neither team in Washington is going to guard what we love the most. That is something we are going to have to face. Liberty is for the citizens to guard themselves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#49. What is ordinary to you maybe a desert of woeful newness to another.

Richard Llewellyn

#50. But I was born in the image of God, a man, a creator, with power of life and death, a father, blessed with the gift of the seed of Adam, a sower of seed, to bring forth generations of new life.
This I was, and envying a kettle.

Richard Llewellyn

#51. The world is thinner in some places.

John Llewellyn Probert

#52. Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

Richard Llewellyn

#53. The nose. It can be a nuisance in winter and such a blessing before a meal.

Richard Llewellyn

#54. Myth is someone else's religion.

Caroline Llewellyn

#55. If credit expansion, protectionism, and government spending were a path to prosperity, mankind would have long ago created heaven on earth.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#56. Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

Dean Koontz

#57. One ironic legacy of the Clinton administration is the rearming of the American citizenry. Each time Clinton and his friends in Congress threaten another round of anti-gun regulations, the American people respond by stocking up ...

Llewellyn Rockwell

#58. Mr. Llewellyn, on the other hand, said there were worse things in life than a temper, that it only proved one had an opinion.

Kate Morton

#59. Money out of nothing is money that is eventually worth nothing.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#60. At any other time Doug would have been slowing the car, peering through the trees, on the lookout for interesting old architecture. Because Douglas Llewellyn was an architect, the senior partner of

Kasey Michaels

#61. You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

Richard Llewellyn

#62. Oneness is very simple: everything is included and allowed to live according to its true nature. This is the secret that is being revealed ...

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#63. Women have their own braveries, their own mighty courageousness that is of woman, and not to be compared with the courage shown by man.

Richard Llewellyn

#64. Subsidies create more of whatever is being subsidized.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#65. Rosalind: "So you don't want me either?" Rosalind flung up her hands. "Good! Because I am tiered of dealing with men. I really don't need any of you!"
Rhys: "That's the spirit, my lady. Keep that up and we'll all be wishing you to the devil very shortly.

Kate Pearce

#66. The danger to a free society is not the guns owned by the citizens but an unconstrained government ... An armed society is a self-governing society, just as a disarmed people are vulnerable to arbitrary power of every kind.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#67. We're...We're like Mrs Sun and Mr Rain on a barometer. When one of us is out, the others stays in. -Marcus

Julia Llewellyn Smith

#68. As long as she could remember who she was, she was okay. She wouldn't go crazy. At least not today.

Melissa De La Cruz

#69. Wealth is not a given or an accident of history. It is not bestowed on us like rain from above. It is the product of human creativity in an environment of freedom. The freedom to own, to make contracts, to save, to invest, to associate, and to trade: these are the key to prosperity.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#70. A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain.

Llewellyn Powers

#71. But to talk of the world that is hidden in every woman is a journey of pain, for the words are not in use to tell of it, and to use the words that are is only a hopping on uneven crutches.

Richard Llewellyn

#72. For it is discomfort's own essence to be near a man and to feel him in torture of misery, to feel with him the very pain of the misery, and yet to be unable to help.

Richard Llewellyn

#73. Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#74. Pledge allegiance to your principles, your family, your faith, but don't be foolish enough to pledge allegiance to a gang of thieves.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#75. No law is an issue until someone tries to enforce it.

Grace Llewellyn

#76. And under my breath I was telling it to hisht and for shame, and if I had known any swearing I would have had that in, too.

Richard Llewellyn

#77. There is nothing the state can do, and which society needs done, that cannot be done far better by the market.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#78. There is a fool you feel when somebody is saying they are sorry for doing something to you. It is worse than if you had done something yourself. So you are having the worst of it twice, start and finish.

Richard Llewellyn

#79. One thing I've learned in caving is always to be two hundred percent sure.

Caroline Llewellyn

#80. Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#81. Real change will only happen when we fall in love with our planet. Only love can show us how to live in harmony with nature and with each other and save us from the devastating effects of environmental destruction and climate change

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#82. To concede that there are social problems that cannot be corrected without the state is to give up the entire argument over the future of liberty itself.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#83. I remember a time when bookshops smelled of books and not coffee.

David Llewellyn

#84. Capitalism, and capitalism alone, has rescued the human race from degrading poverty, rampant sickness and early death.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#85. Jack gazed down at the black surface of the sea. He felt and affinity with the ocean, as if it were a kindred spirit. The knowledge that every drop of water had always been a drop of water, practically since the stars were formed. Water was infinite and immortal.

David Llewellyn

#86. I saw my father as a man, and not, as a man who was my father.

Richard Llewellyn

#87. Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Dean Koontz

#88. Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.

Richard Llewellyn

#89. It's not as if socialism is a new idea. It was tried in the 20th century. It produced economic stagnation and despair. In its purest form, it extinguished more than one hundred million people.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#90. She was a stranger in her own life, a tourist in her own body.

Melissa De La Cruz

#91. The private sector is creating a miracle a day, even as the stuff that government attempts is failing left and right.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#92. The state is and has been in history a source of disorder and chaos, and this problem gets worse the more the state grows.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#93. Above all, ascribe no decent motives to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#94. There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.

Richard Llewellyn

#95. The fact that we have to fight for something so essential to life as the integrity of seeds, speaks to the real drama of this present time: that we have to fight to preserve what is most fundamental and sacred to life.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

#96. If the people are led to believe that scarce resources are best channeled in a direction that producers and consumers would not choose on their own, the result must necessarily be central planning.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#97. Night doesn't fall in Rome; it rises from the city's heart, from the gloomy little alleys and courtyards where the sun never gets much more than a brief look-in, and then, like the mist from the Tiber, it creeps over the rooftops and spreads up into the hills.

Caroline Llewellyn

#98. The world was created for Mankind, not for some of mankind.

Richard Llewellyn

#99. Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour.

Dean Koontz

#100. There were no larks anymore. There was only the setting sun spreading blood up the sky and the yowl of hounds on a breast-high scent.

Sam Llewellyn