““We are trying to save the people of the planet from the people ‘saving the planet.'””

— Caleb Rossiter, Skeptical scientist hijacks AOC Congressional climate hearing

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““Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.””

— Abraham Lincoln

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So does that mean that the Decalogue has no value?

Tags: Christianity ∙ individual ∙ people ∙ pagans ∙ atheist ∙ secret of life ∙ Satanists ∙ force ∙ coercive power ∙ vice ∙ virtue ∙ Christian ∙ Jewish ∙ cross posted ∙ rules ∙ laws ∙ Divine ∙ Decalogue ∙ Nature ∙ World ∙ humanity ∙ colony ∙ organism ∙ cooperation ∙ Chas S. Clifton ∙ label

❝❝The Constitution and the Bill of Rights limit government, not people.

The way I see it, you are free to say and do as you want SO LONG AS you accept responsibility and the consequences. Anyone who promises you freedom from that is lying.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: Constitution ∙ Bill of Rights ∙ people ∙ responsibility ∙ consequences ∙ lying

““When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. People with careers as ethnic leaders usually tell their followers what they want to hear.””
     — Thomas Sowell

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❝❝What I'd like to point out is that if you keep throwing people you don't agree with into the "Them" pile, you're going to run out of people in the "Us" pile.

And no, I don't include myself in your "Us" pile.

Disagreements happen. People should decide if they want a Grand Crusade where every one agrees (or is afraid to disagree) and nothing gets done. Or maybe where you go for the smaller battles that you can win with allies, instead of waiting for perfection.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ us vs them ∙ people ∙ disagreements ∙ Grand Crusade ∙ perfection

“Delusions of Justice”

Tags: California ∙ secession ∙ Constitution ∙ American history professors ∙ politicos ∙ technocrats ∙ people ∙ state ∙ water rights ∙ Southwest ∙ Arizona ∙ Nevada ∙ Imperial Valley ∙ Mexico ∙ SCOTUS ∙ splitting the state ∙ treason ∙ MacGuffin ∙ Dred Scott decision ∙ Minersville School District v. Gobitis ∙ United States v. Rabinowitz ∙ First Amendment ∙ Tenth Amendment ∙ commerce clause ∙ individual citizens ∙ Thomas Jefferson ∙ Declaration of Independence

““Any unarmed people are slaves or subject to slavery at any given moment.””
     — Huey P. Newton

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❝❝Because I assume that people are amazing unless they prove otherwise.

Because I prefer asking questions to arguing.

Because I'm not defined by my gender.

And because not everyone is a bigot.

As I said, I look for the Divine in every woman I meet. Can you think of a better way to find people who are honorable, passionate and reasoning at the same time?❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ people ∙ questions ∙ gender ∙ bigotry ∙ honorable ∙ passionate ∙ reasoning

❝❝I prefer to assume that people are amazing unless they prove otherwise. Individuals may be awesome or terrible, but men as a group aren't guilty because of the behavior of some.

Treating all men as if they are guilty will not only cost you allies, it means that some good men will stop listening just because being called perpetually guilty is tiresome.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ men ∙ people ∙ individual ∙ group ∙ guilt

Tags: Calvin Coolidge ∙ people ∙ America ∙ less ∙ memes ∙ government ∙ more ∙ for themselves ∙ rewards

Headlines that don't merit their own entry

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❝❝The people who pay attention to laws are not the ones you have to worry about.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ pay attention ∙ people

❝❝People cherish their passions.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ humantics ∙ people ∙ passion

People look for better value if it's their own money at stake.

Tags: maxims ∙ people ∙ associational freedom ∙ freedom of expression ∙ freedom of assembly ∙ Supreme Court

❝❝Here's the dirty little secret that you're avoiding. The evil is not in a belief system. That's the excuse, not the reason. No book has ever committed genocide. No song has ever burned someone alive. No long lost chant has ever raped.

It's people who speak and people who act. It's people who do good, and people who do evil.❞❞
     — NeoWayland

Tags: maxims ∙ good ∙ evil ∙ people ∙ religion ∙ faith system ∙ book ∙ genocide ∙ song ∙ burned someone alive ∙ long lost chant ∙ raped