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
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• 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
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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
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• I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Work
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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
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• Composition has almost always been solitary.

  

  Wendy Carlos
  • Always
  • Almost
  • Composition

• As a boy, I was deeply interested in scientific ideas, electrical and mechanical, and I read almost everything I could find on the subject. I was attracted more by the hardware and construction aspects than by the scientific issues.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Ideas
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  • Construction

• 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
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  • She

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

  

  Zoey Deutch
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• I filled the margins of my schoolbooks with lyrics.

  

  Maluma
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• 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
  • Change

• 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

• Whether it's their Sharia law and birther conspiracies or their unwillingness to buck Grover Norquist's no-tax pledge, the Tea Partiers have hijacked their party and carried it all the way to the right.

  

  Jennifer Granholm
  • Law
  • Party
  • Tea

• I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

  

  John Lee Hooker
  • Time
  • Today

• I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.

  

  Philip Kerr
  • Interesting

• I think growing up in South Africa, and then moving to Canada, I'm just genuinely interested in the difference between the First World and the Third World, immigration, and how the new, globalized world is beginning to operate. All of those things run through my mind a lot.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • Up
  • World
  • Mind

• American liberty is being destroyed by Marxist doctrines that explain society in terms of hegemonic and oppressed groups - whether classes, races or genders - fighting for suzerainty. In these societies spun out of Marxist theorizing, good will does not exist, only the material interests of warring groups. Morality resides in the oppressed, but if the oppressed succeed in becoming hegemonic, their claim to moral supremacy evaporates.

  

  Paul Craig Roberts
  • Liberty
  • Destroyed
  • Marxist

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

  

  Frank Chodorov