Quotes Of The Day
October 29th, 2007 by ThunderDragon
The prize for the most stupid sentence I have read today goes to:
… freedom is not a concept in which people can do anything they want, be anything they can be. Freedom is about authority. Freedom is about the willingness of every single human being to cede to lawful authority a great deal of discretion about what you do. - Rudy Giuliani in 1994 [via Mr Eugenides]
How on earth can freedom possibly be about authority?! They are polar opposites!
That just - and I mean just - pipped this in sheer stupidity:
Libertarians are the True Social Parasites… Unless tax-payers’ money and public services are available to repair the destruction it causes, libertarianism destroys people’s savings, wrecks their lives and trashes their environment. It is the belief system of the free-rider, who is perpetually subsidised by responsible citizens… Self-serving as governments might be, the true social parasites are those who demand their dissolution. - George Monbiot
Tom Paine has ably destroyed this ridiculous assertion, so go there and read his post.
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Not a Rudy fan, but I think he was probably referring to authority in the anti-anarchy sense.
Of course it was Rudy in the mid-90’s so nothing is for sure