Robert C. Watson: July 2006

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Capitalism requires unfettered freedom of choice.

Any idealogy (i.e. capitalism, communism, socialism, christianity, etc.), taken to extreme, is destructive to society. As biodiversity is vital to survival of species, so too is societal-diversity required for the survival of civilizations.

Communism, Socialism, Republicanism, Democracy, even Theocracy, are but welcome respites to the daily totalitarianism of the employer.

He who exhibits the greatest anger, harbors the greatest fears.

Privatization lowers costs and improves service because government is grossly inefficient and has no incentive to do better. Neither is true.

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Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. (Dune, by Frank Herbert)

Quotes To Ponder

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First they came for the Communists,and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews,and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics,and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me,and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
German Protestant minister Martin Niemoller, after his release from Dachau at the end of World War II

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
John Kenneth Galbraith