Frank Chodorov Quotes

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Frank Chodorov

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• There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Emotions
  • Go
  • July

• Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • People
  • Music
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• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
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• I think I've learned the difference between the things I can control and the things I can't control. And hopefully, by doing the things I can control well, I'll have more favor in the other category.

  

  Manti Te'o
  • Think
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• I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Me
  • Choose
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• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Man

• Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Animals
  • Planet
  • Companions

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Always
  • Almost
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• Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Work
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• Bullies generally were bullied and are hurting inside much more than you could ever imagine.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • You
  • Imagine
  • More

• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
  • Lyrics
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  • Margins

• Any form of art is a form of power; it has impact, it can affect change - it can not only move us, it makes us move.

  

  Ossie Davis
  • Art
  • Power
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• Tedium is the lack of a mithology. To whom has no beliefs, even doubt is impossible, even skepticism has no strength to suspect.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Doubt

• We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything, Anarchism, with the rest. But I have not tried it. They say there is nothing new under any sun. But if each life is not new, each single life, then why are we born?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Why
  • Single

• Feminists often discuss women having two jobs: work and children. True. But no one discusses those divorced and remarried men who have three jobs: work, and two sets of children to nurture and financially support.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• Development is not about factories, dams and roads. Development is about people.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People

• In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

  

  Betty MacDonald
  • Work
  • Country
  • Guilty

• Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Today
  • Sex

• I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Party

• So often, when somebody dies in the family, whether a child or a parent, there is no one to lean on. When something like that happens, you go into a shell, but on the other hand, it's a really good thing to talk it over and say how you feel.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Good
  • Family
  • Hand

• People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true. But I think that the South is changing, slowly but surely.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Bad
  • True

• Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

  

  Frank Chodorov