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Karl Marx

Accuse your enemy of what you are doing as you are doing to create confusion.

Marco Rubio

The ideal of many ideologies in our time has, frankly, become a world of perfect safety, devoid of risk or failure, with neither the glory of victory nor the shame of defeat. Too often these days, we build downwards. We design our standards to ensure no one will lose; we preoccupy ourselves more with the comfort of the worst than the potential of the best. We hold the most exceptional things among us hostage to the average, the ordinary, the mediocre.

David O. Sacks

Dario has written that we need to “pace the frontier,” and Sam has agreed. […] I don’t see what you see in the lab. If the unreleased models are scary enough that you think you should slow down, I support your decision to be responsible. But stop pretending you need anyone else’s permission. Stop pretending antitrust law has to be suspended so you can form a cartel. Stop pretending you need a regulatory approval process that supersedes product liability. […] Most of all, stop pretending the motivation to slow down is purely altruistic. You face massive product-liability exposure if your products enable a truly damaging cyberattack.

Michael Segal

Nutty ideas persist longer than they used to because ideas can dwell in the safe space of like-minded groups on the internet.

Michael Segal

Intersectionality creates a pecking order with blacks, Muslims, and LGBTs on top and whites, East Asians and Jews on the bottom. The result is a zany coalition in which gay-hating Islamic supremacists and gay intersectionality devotees go to the same demonstrations, and groups emerge that sound like parodies, such as Queers for Palestine.

Gary Shilling

Markets can remain irrational a lot longer than you and I can remain solvent.

George F. Will

Instant virtue is acquired by reciting a catechism built of these binary pronouncements: The only remedy to racist discrimination is antiracist discrimination. The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination.” If you are not an antiracist you are a racist. […] All disparities in social outcomes are necessarily explained by racism.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All the celebrated technological achievements of progress, including the conquest of outer space, do not redeem the twentieth century’s moral poverty, which no one could have imagined even as late as the nineteenth century.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Many people living in the West are dissatisfied with their own society. They despise it or accuse it of no longer being up to the level of maturity attained by mankind. And this causes many to sway toward socialism, which is a false and dangerous current. I hope that no one present will suspect me of expressing my partial criticism of the Western system in order to suggest socialism as an alternative. No; with the experience of a country where socialism has been realized, I shall certainly not speak for such an alternative. The mathematician Igor Shafarevich, a member of the Soviet Academy of Science, has written a brilliantly argued book entitled Socialism; this is a penetrating historical analysis demonstrating that socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit and to a leveling of mankind into death.

Kimberley Strassel

Today’s Democratic Party is entirely dedicated to the proposition that all Americans should be told how to live.

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Peter Drucker

I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit into a headline.

Maya Angelou

You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Elon Musk

I think it's important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we conduct our lives is we reason by analogy. [With analogy] we are doing this because it's like something else that was done, or it is like what other people are doing. [With first principles] you boil things down to the most fundamental truths…and then reason up from there.

Dave Chappelle

I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing. And I believe it is beautiful if you learn it the right way.

Thomas Sowell

More whites were brought as slaves to North Africa than blacks brought as slaves to the United States or to the 13 colonies from which it was formed. White slaves were still being bought and sold in the Ottoman Empire, decades after blacks were freed in the United States.

John Adams

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Joseph Stalin

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

Although this is generally attributed to Stalin, there is no writing of his that has the quotation. So some believe that this quotation is apocryphal.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles.

There is no evidence Fyodor ever said this.

Isaac Asimov

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

Adam Smith

Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent.