Wendy Mcelroy Quotes

#1. Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.

Wendy McElroy

#2. All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

Charles Beaumont

#3. It is not the particular man in power that I oppose, but the power itself, which is unjust.

Wendy McElroy

#4. Freedom means self-fulfillment. It also means putting up with other people's irritating pursuit of the same. It means being confronted by disturbing images and ideas.

Wendy McElroy

#5. I love writing pop songs and I love the challenge. I love melodies and wanted it to be classy. I wanted it to have some substance because I feel as if I have a lot of things to say and wanted it to have something to it.

Courtney Jaye

#6. A coerced choice does not reflect virtue, only compliance.

Wendy McElroy

#7. There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason. Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The people cannot delegate to government the power to do anything which would be unlawful for them to do themselves.

John Locke

#8. As the United Nations pushes for jurisdiction over the globe, it is important to remember how it has acted in Bosnia. The character of an institution, no less than of an individual, is revealed through actions, not words.

Wendy McElroy

#9. Voting is not an act of political freedom. It is an act of political conformity. Those who refuse to vote are not expressing silence. They are screaming in the politician's ear: 'You do not represent me. This is not a process in which my voice matters. I do not believe you.'

Wendy McElroy

#10. The problem is not that public schools do not work well, but rather that they do. The first goal and primary function of schools is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we normally label state indoctrination.

Wendy McElroy

#11. Be Grateful- Your Life is a Miracle.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#12. Dammit!" "What?" Gonzo sounds panicked. "We're out of gas." "You're Shithenging me." "I Shithenge you not.

Libba Bray

#13. I never dress to shock.

Leona Lewis

#14. Now this... this is why humans did such stupid things for love. To feel this heady sense of belonging and connection, this temporary abatement of perpetual loneliness.

Stacey Kade

#15. Might as well get paid for it.

Amanda L. Webster

#16. We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

Wendy McElroy

#17. But that was my big moment: I gave a seminar in the biology department at Harvard! I always do that, get into something and see how far I can go. I

Richard Feynman

#18. He stared at me. "You have a sexual fantasy in which I'm a virgin?".

Sylvia Day

#19. Many newspapers always talk about how many people have died, but they never say how many people have lived.

Robin McLaurin Williams