Mon Mar 31, 2008 12:16 am
Top 3 Books Overall
Sun Tzu - Art of War
"The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you."
Adam Smith - The Weath of Nations
Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defense of the rich against the poor, or of those who have some property against those who have none at all.
V.i.b.12 (Part II)
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? (B 832-833)
Top 3 Novels
Joseph Heller - Catch-22
"Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them." Chapter 39, pg. 415
P. J. O'Rourke - Eat The Rich
"Your money does not cause my poverty. Refusal to believe this is at the bottom of most bad economic thinking."
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
"Time affords us the ability to blame past errors on others while whole heartedly pronouncing our future successes". - Ford Prefect
Lee and "Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government" by Charles Fried.
