In view of the recent surge of new persons of legal letters descending on Sodom-on-the-Potomac, perhaps we can stand on the shoulders of giants by reviewing a selection of notable quotations regarding the quarreling class.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #89 — Loyalty
Every definition of the word, loyalty, that I find suggests that the loyalty arises for cause. Why do people who ask for loyalty seem to be holding a mental post-it note that adds “forever and in all events?”
Words Poorly Used #88 — Should
Today I heard an otherwise voluntaryist podcast, but it had far too many instances of the use of the word “should.” There were too many because “should,” in an independent clause is only another baseless assertion.
Director of Communications
Wait, what? Did you know the White House had a Director of Communications? Nor I. In any event, this mystery minion (what does he do?) is stepping down.
This Just In
Of course the climate changes. If it didn’t, it would be nothing at all. Of course humans affect climate change. We eat, sleep, move, mate, defecate — did we think those were processes that have no input, no output, and no by product?
Laws
The state can only produce legislation. Real laws precede and succeed any particular state. For instance, you do not have to outlaw murder for it to be wrong.
High Expectations
To be disappointed in news because it is fake is like being disappointed in rain because it is wet.
Ayn Rand Revisited
I suppose I regard the message of “Fountainhead” to be more elemental than that of “Atlas.” I think, I hope, that we are nearing the end of the short run in which statism will have run its course.
Rule of Law
To say that the rule of law should apply to police is NOT to say that there should be no police. But to say that the rule of law does not apply to police IS to say that we shall not have the rule of law.
Words Poorly Used #87 — Open Borders
“Open borders” is a bit of an oxymoron. A border impairs or negatively influences passage, an opening enables or positively influences passage. Let there be natural borders and natural openings, without state interventions, without cultural definitions.