Expropriating Quotes & Sayings

An expropriating property protector (the state, through taxation) is a contradiction in terms — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Past is dead
Future is uncertain;
Present is all you have,
So eat, drink and live merry. — Albert Einstein

Why do we love anyone? It just happens. There's something about the person which speaks to us. Then, in exploring it, we discover that those qualities which piqued our interest are far more outstanding than we knew. We
continue to reach for each other, and somewhere along the line our souls communicate. — Katie Blu

I am an historian of warfare; I often describe my job as similar to that of an oncologist. I study that which kills and hope that one day humanity will find a cure. — William R. Forstchen

Then, as in the middle of the bridge, in the middle of a walk, in the middle always, whether of a book, a conversation, or making love, it was borne in on me again that I had never done what I wanted and out of not doing what I wanted to do there grew up inside me this creation which was nothing but an obsessional plant, a sort of coral growth, which was expropriating everything, including life itself, until life itself became this which was denied but which constantly asserted itself, making life and killing life at the same time. — Henry Miller

Getting even was the basis of many primate semantic confusions, such as"expropriating the expropriators," "an absolute crime demands an absolute penalty," "they did it to me so I can do it to them," and, in general, the emotional mathematics of "one plus one equals zero" (1 + 1 = 0).

The primates were so dumb they didn't realize that one plus one equals two (1 + 1 = 2) and one murder plus one murder equals two murders, one crime plus one crime equals two crimes, etc. — Robert Anton Wilson

illusory superiority." It is a phenomenon whereby people tend to overemphasize their positive qualities and underemphasize their negative qualities. — Steven Shaer

My motto is: walk expropriating and igniting, always leaving behind me howls of moral offenses and smoking trunks of old things. — Renzo Novatore

Magic was not in glitter and sparks. Real magic didn't need to be. — Thomm Quackenbush

In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor. — Richard Benjamin

Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. — Coco J. Ginger

One of the hardest things about writing lyrics is to make the lyrics sit on the music in such a way that you're not aware there was a writer there. — Stephen Sondheim

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. — John Holmes

Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice. — Madeleine L'Engle

Sleep is often the only occasion in which man cannot silence his conscience; we forget what we knew in our dream. — Erich Fromm