Sterbenz Stash Quotes & Sayings

Government exists to protect the product of men's labor, their property, and therewith life and liberty. The notion that man possesses inalienable natural rights, that they belong to him as an individual prior, both in time and in sanctity, to any civil society, and that civil societies exist for and acquire their legitimacy from ensuring those rights, is an invention of modern philosophy. Rights, like the other terms discussed in this chapter, are new in modernity, not a part of the common-sense language of politics or of classical political philosophy." from "Closing of the American Mind" by Allan Bloom, Saul Bellow, Andrew Ferguson — Allan Bloom

Give me a story that just makes me unreasonably vigilant. Keep me up till five only because all your stars are out, and for no other reason. — J.D. Salinger

We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. — Dean Koontz

God is just a statistics. — Marilyn Manson

I know I messed up but I'm here for real now. We're going to do this and I promise I'll take care of you as best I can. You're going to have to be patient with me because I'm flying blind. — Jay Crownover

The process of globalization has now interconnected almost everything ranging from financial markets to transport networks to communication systems in a huge system that no one really understands. — John L. Casti

It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone. — Orville Redenbacher

I hope the strong women out there aren't quiet and they don't go away, because when people attack you for speaking, the best way to drive them nuts is to smile and carry on speaking, louder, more wisely, more intensely, more articulately than ever. — Neil Gaiman

To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter. — Chris Murphy

Life never seems to prepare us sufficiently for epiphanies. ... they are not magical intrusions from another world, but reality, naked, and without shame. — Monks Of New Skete

Everyone needs a sense of shame, but no one needs to feel ashamed. — Friedrich Nietzsche