In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
People should not be able to vote to take away the rights of others.
The catch-all phrase "the war on terrorism", in all honesty, has no more meaning than if one wants to wage a war against "criminal gangsterism". Terrorism is a tactic. You can't have a war against a tactic. It's deliberately vague and non-definable in order to justify and permit perpetual war anywhere and under any circumstance.
Ideas are very important to the shaping of society. In fact, they are more powerful than bombings or armies or guns. And this is because ideas are capable of spreading without limit. They are behind all the choices we make. They can transform the world in a way that governments and armies cannot. Fighting for liberty with ideas makes more sense to me than fighting with guns or politics or political power. With ideas, we can make real change that lasts.
I lean toward a flat tax. But I want to make it real flat, like ZERO.
When we give government the power to make medical decisions for us, we, in essence, accept that the state owns our bodies.
If you give up on your principles I don’t think that’s being pragmatic. . . Doing the wrong thing, even partially, isn’t being practical. . . if you have the right ideas and are forceful enough. . . I think you can get the support you need.
Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.
Intuitive design is how we give the user new superpowers.
democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.
That America is in the calamity is a result of a certain amount of elitism in the Democratic Party where they're tied to the sensibility of the college-educated, multicultural crowd, of which I'm a part, which has created a sense where it's OK to say, "All the red state voters are stupid, they're all dummies, they're all racist, they're all backwards mouth-breathing knuckle-dragging. . . " all that stuff. And that kind of elitism, which is first of all not true, is also not fair. It's also dumb strategy.