Quotes for 1/6/2012

• A right, such as a right to free speech, imposes no obligation on another, except that of non-interference. The so-called right to health care, food or housing, whether a person can afford it or not, is something entirely different; it does impose an obligation on another. If one person has a right to something he didn't produce, simultaneously and of necessity it means that some other person does not have right to something he did produce. That's because, since there's no Santa Claus or Tooth Fairy, in order for government to give one American a dollar, it must, through intimidation, threats and coercion, confiscate that dollar from some other American. (Walter E. Williams)
• There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation. (Walter E. Williams)
• How you make it in this world, for the most part, depends more on what you do as opposed to whether people like or dislike you. In order to produce a successful life, one must find ways to please his fellow man. That is, find out what goods and services his fellow man values, and is willing to pay for, and then acquire the necessary skills and education to provide it. (Walter E. Williams)
• Three-fifths to two-thirds of the federal budget consists of taking property from one American and giving it to another. Were a private person to do the same thing, we'd call it theft. When government does it, we euphemistically call it income redistribution, but that's exactly what thieves do -- redistribute income. Income redistribution not only betrays the founders' vision, it's a sin in the eyes of God. (Walter E. Williams)
• Government is necessary, but the only rights we can delegate to government are the ones we possess. For example, we all have a natural right to defend ourselves against predators. Since we possess that right, we can delegate authority to government to defend us. By contrast, we don't have a natural right to take the property of one person to give to another; therefore, we cannot legitimately delegate such authority to government. (Walter E. Williams)
• No human should be coerced by the state to bear the medical expense, or any other expense, for his fellow man. In other words, the forcible use of one person to serve the purposes of another is morally offensive. (Walter E. Williams)
• Minimum or maximum prices are one of the most effective ways to encourage people to indulge their preferences, be they racial or any other preference. In general, any kind of economic regulation that restricts peaceable, voluntary exchange has the capacity to lower the costs of preference indulgence. Decent people should be against such regulations. (Walter E. Williams)
• For the most part, income is a result of one's productivity and the value that people place on that productivity. (Walter E. Williams)
• One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow man, as it has throughout most of human history, but by serving and pleasing him. (Walter E. Williams)
• Government officials, if given power to control us, soon become zealots. (Walter E. Williams)
• If we wish to be compassionate with our fellow man, we must learn to engage in dispassionate analysis. In other words, thinking with our hearts, rather than our brains, is a surefire method to hurt those whom we wish to help. (Walter E. Williams)
• Throughout history, the right to pursue one's goals in a peaceable, voluntary manner, without direction, control, and coercion, has won a hostile reception. There's little older in history than the idea that some should give orders and others obey. (Walter E. Williams)
• People who denounce the free market and voluntary exchange, and are for control and coercion, believe they have more intelligence and superior wisdom to the masses. What's more, they believe they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Of course, they have what they consider good reasons for doing so, but every tyrant that has ever existed has had what he believed were good reasons for restricting the liberty of others. (Walter E. Williams)
• Equality before the general rules of law is the only kind of equality conducive to liberty that can be secured without destroying liberty. It is an equality that neither requires nor assumes people are in fact equal. Our attempt to make people equal in fact by rigging law to produce equal results destroys civility and generalized respect for the law. Government cannot create an advantage for one person without simultaneously creating a disadvantage for another. (Walter E. Williams)
• Profit is a payment to entrepreneurs just as wages are payments to labor, interest to capital, and rent to land. In order to earn profits in free markets, entrepreneurs must identify and satisfy human wants in a way that economizes on society's scarce resources. (Walter E. Williams)
• Increases in money supply are what constitute inflation, and a general rise in prices is the symptom. (Walter E. Williams)
• The true test of one's commitment to liberty and private property rights doesn't come when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we agree. The true test comes when we permit people to be free to do those voluntary things with which we disagree. (Walter E. Williams)
• Two vital marketplace signals are the profits that come with success and the losses that come with failure. When these two signals are not allowed to freely function, markets operate less efficiently. (Walter E. Williams)
• By the democratic principles we espouse, government cannot have a right that citizens do not grant it. There are certain things that a person has no right to do. A person has no right to murder or rape another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to murder and rape. Similarly, no person has the right to forcibly take the property of one person in order to give it to another. Therefore, people cannot grant government authority to do the same thing. If I forcibly took property from one person, for any reason, most people would condemn it as theft, an immoral act. Theft or any other immoral act does not become moral because it is done by government acting on behalf of a consensus or majority vote just as murder or rape does not become a moral act simply because of a consensus or majority vote. (Walter E. Williams)
• Capitalism is relatively new in human history. Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering, and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man. (Walter E. Williams)
• I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers. (Robert Wyatt)
• I'm not full of malice, but I do dislike Neil Diamond a lot, and I'm sorry that I've done a Neil Diamond song. (Robert Wyatt)
• I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer. (Robert Wyatt)
• I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. (Robert Wyatt)
• I think the people who did well, or are happy, in a youth industry, they define themselves out of the business after a decade or so. (Robert Wyatt)
• I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology. (Robert Wyatt)
• I've always liked pop music. There was a bit of a misunderstanding with the avant-garde rock scene, because I think I was sort of swimming the wrong way, really. (Robert Wyatt)
• If you've never felt that you quite got a hold of it, you just feel that before you die, you've got to try and get it right once. And hope that the experience you have makes up for the some of the diminishing energy. (Robert Wyatt)
• In the past, so many of my records, really, have been sketches for records that never really got made. (Robert Wyatt)
• In theory, I'd like to work in a group. But the group I'd like to work in, all the musicians in them are long since dead. (Robert Wyatt)
• It just doesn't mean anything to me, the high-profile, big money side of things. I just want enough to live on, and to be able to get on with what I do, and hang around my friends. (Robert Wyatt)
• It was physically difficult, adjusting to wheelchair life, but I remember a great relief and happiness that I was finally getting somewhere, finding musicians to work with that were sympathetic. (Robert Wyatt)
• Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. (Robert Wyatt)
• My heroes are people like Picasso and Miro and people who at last really reach something in their old age, which they absolutely couldn't ever have done in their youth. (Robert Wyatt)
• On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers. (Robert Wyatt)
• People are quite shocked when you remind them that Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra never wrote a song that they recorded in their lives, as far as I know. (Robert Wyatt)
• People say, oh it's a shame, you're not nostalgic about the '60s. Well actually, it's quite good, when you think of it. Wouldn't it be sad if I was sitting here wishing it back? (Robert Wyatt)
• The most effective instruments do have a vocal quality. (Robert Wyatt)
• The things that I draw on, and the world that I feel part of, aren't particularly youth culture. (Robert Wyatt)
• There are people I would like to work with. It's a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I can't really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing. (Robert Wyatt)
• There are singers that I have enjoyed, from Nina Simone and Ray Charles onward. But the music that made music the number one thing for me as a youth was jazz. (Robert Wyatt)
• There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas. (Robert Wyatt)
• This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome. (Robert Wyatt)
• Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world. (Robert Wyatt)
• We did not get any money from th (Robert Wyatt)
• We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise. (Robert Wyatt)
• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done. (Robert Wyatt)
• When I lost the use of my hi-hat and bass drum legs, I became basically a singer. I was a drummer who did a bit of singing, and then I became a singer who did a bit of percussion. (Robert Wyatt)
• When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it. (Robert Wyatt)
• When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice. (Robert Wyatt)
• Free ultimately expands markets. Consumers recognize the difference between what they pay for and what they get free. Free can coexist alongside paid media and serve very different needs and markets. (Michael Wolf)
• The basis for content on the Internet is now shifting from text to video. This allows advertisers to take advantage of the kind of branding advertising they are used to on television. (Michael Wolf)
• You look back and you say you've done everything you can. It doesn't preclude someone from coming forward and enabling it to be done better. (Michael Wolf)
• It's still open. I'm still concerned about it. I can't sit here and say it will be solved. You leave the book open until it's resolved. When that'll happen, who knows? Sometimes, as in the Kaczynski case, sometimes it takes a break. (Michael Wolf)
• Is it cross-contamination from the Leahy-Daschle letters? Could've been. Is that the easy way out? Maybe. (Michael Wolf)
• Everyone perceives this as a fire sale right now. It's not viewed as a solid business anymore. (Michael Wolf)
• They believe every poker team or pizza parlor would have a political party, but that's not so. Who's going to go through the trouble in the name of vanity? (Michael Wolf)
• I don't know what's gong to happen. I don't know if the city's going to push the forfeiture action. I don't know if the city's going to file criminal charges (Michael Wolf)
• “I don't know what's gong to happen. I don't know if the city's going to push the forfeiture action. I don't know if the city's going to file criminal charges. (Michael Wolf)
• These industries are interdependent but very separate. It's very tough for technology companies to become media companies, even though they aspire to become so. And media companies are not about technology. They are at the two ends of the spectrum--they are coming together on one side but are still very separate. (Michael Wolf)
• This underscores the importance of the physician's endorsement of screening. (Michael Wolf)
• The more devices people have, the more experiences they want, and the more occasions they have to become an audience. In our company, despite the fact our audience is going online, our ratings are (the) highest ever. Our series ' Laguna Beach ' is available to consumers online or with their cell phone. The television is not the center of the universe; it is one piece of a hub. (Michael Wolf)
• The online console gaming market is set to take off, as the new generation of consoles arrives with advanced networking and online gaming capabilities. The ability to download game demos, buy casual as well as full-fledged console games, and access advanced content, including HD video, will result in 'online' becoming the key technology component of gaming for this and subsequent console generations. (Michael Wolf)
• Gaming has become a mass-market entertainment industry on a par with TV, movies and music. Segments such as video game advertising, set to become a market worth close to $3 billion by 2011, will result in the further maturing of this industry. The ability to play music and media from powerful consoles and handhelds will drive overall industry growth as consumers begin to view gaming devices as one-stop-shop entertainment platforms. (Michael Wolf)
• It would be an appropriate way to resolve it, and I hope they consider it favorably. There's too much downside for both parties: risk in litigation. I hope I have come up with something very palatable for both sides. (Michael Wolf)
• The media network has evolved because consumers want to be able to connect to all the devices in their lives and access all their content. The merging of home and wide area wireless networks is the next natural step in this evolution. (Michael Wolf)
• In recent months we have seen a number of announcements and proof of concept demonstrations from major players in the mobile and consumer electronics markets that tie the consumer's mobile devices to the home network. (Michael Wolf)
• Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos. (Wayne Kramer)
• I thought 'any good band needs a bongo player. (Wayne Kramer)
• ' I met this kid Fred Smith and he was real interested in music and a good looking kid, a tough kid, knew how to fight, popular, very funny, bright. (Wayne Kramer)
• He really said he wanted to learn how to play the guitar. (Wayne Kramer)
• His father was from the South and most Southern homes have a guitar laying around. (Wayne Kramer)
• My step-father was from the South so we had a guitar laying around and music was part of the day-to-day routine. (Wayne Kramer)
• When we first started playing in the early days, none of us really had any idea about writing our own songs yet. (Wayne Kramer)
• We were struggling how to learn our instruments and play songs to be able to perform for people. (Wayne Kramer)
• We gravitated to a certain kind of material, like the music of Chuck Berry and instrumental records and certain records that had a... what we'd call... 'high energy'. (Wayne Kramer)
• We later became articulate enough to define it as music that was real visceral. (Wayne Kramer)
• It was about a lot of heat and energy, like the music of James Brown, black gospel music. (Wayne Kramer)
• Not what we were hearing on the radio but you had to search it out. (Wayne Kramer)
• It created kind of a problem in the early days because if you didn't play the kind of music that they were playing on the radio, you couldn't work. (Wayne Kramer)
• Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. (Jack Kevorkian)
• What are they trying to put me in jail for? (Jack Kevorkian)
• You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma. (Jack Kevorkian)
• I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. (Jack Kevorkian)
• I don't care if I live in a dump. (Jack Kevorkian)
• I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months. (Jack Kevorkian)
• I'm for absolute autonomy of the individual, and an adult, competent woman has absolute autonomy. (Jack Kevorkian)
• I grew up surrounded by music with my parents having albums by Motown greats and my favourites being George Clinton, Dr. Dre, DJ Quik and Raphael Saadiq. ( DJ Aligator Project)
• An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's. (Jerome Salinger)
• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world. (Jerome Salinger)
• How do you know you're going to do something, untill you do it? (Jerome Salinger)
• I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Jerome Salinger)
• I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. (Jerome Salinger)
• I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake. (Jerome Salinger)
• I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are. (Jerome Salinger)
• I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. (Jerome Salinger)
• I'm the most terrific liar you ever saw in your life. (Jerome Salinger)
• If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody. (Jerome Salinger)
• It's funny. All you have to do is say something nobody understands and they'll do practically anything you want them to. (Jerome Salinger)
• Its really hard to be roommates with people if your suitcases are much better than theirs. (Jerome Salinger)
• Mothers are all slightly insane. (Jerome Salinger)
• People never believe you. (Jerome Salinger)
• The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. (Jerome Salinger)
• They didn't act like people and they didn't act like actors. It's hard to explain. They acted more like they knew they were celebrities and all. I mean they were good, but they were too good. (Jerome Salinger)
• "Pain is love." ( Ja Rule)
• "Right now, I'm pro-leave beef alone. Big shout-out to all the vegetarians who don't want beef!" ( Ja Rule)
• It's as simple as something that nobody knows. look at all those fancy clothes, but these clothes could keep us warm just like those, and what about your soul, is it gold? or is it straight from the mold and ready to be sold... (Jack Johnson)
• There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven...âˆ? (Jack Johnson)
• "My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.âˆ? (Jack Johnson)
• "Well I know some people, they got a little less than nothing But still find some to spare- And other people got more than they could use... But they don't share" (Jack Johnson)
• There were so many fewer questions when stars were still just the holes to heaven. (Jack Johnson)
• "Such a tough enchiladia filled up with nota giving what you gotta give to get a dollar bill." (Jack Johnson)
• but everybody think that everybody knows about everybody else. nobody knows anything about themselves cause they're all worried about everybody else... (Jack Johnson)
• All the choices are made just purely on what seems like it would be fun. We don't always want to grow things. (Jack Johnson)
• I think we're at a point where we feel pretty comfortable if we can keep things about the same.âˆ? (Jack Johnson)
• I told him I caught politics and never got over it.âˆ? (Jack Johnson)
• We don't always want to grow things. (Jack Johnson)

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