-Caveat Lector-
27 August 1999
Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise
College of Engineering at UT Austin
http://www.engr.utexas.edu/cofe/quotes.htm
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"The system of private property is the most important guaranty to
freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less for
those who do not. It is only because of the control of the means of
production is divided among many people acting independently that
no
one has complete power over us, that we as individuals can decide
what
we do for ourselves." -- Friedrich A. Hayck
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"We reject the idea of private property." -- Peter Berle, President of
the National Audobon Society ------------------------------------
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized
civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that
about?" -- Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio
de
Janeiro ------------------------------------
"We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of
ordinary Americans..." -- Bill Clinton (USA TODAY, 11 March 1993,
page 2A) ------------------------------------
Editorial Comment: First kill all the lawyers, especially those who
run for public office.
"This is a political game. It has nothing to do with science. It has
nothing to do with health and safety." -- Sherry Neddick,
Greenpeace
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"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no
scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect." -- Richard
Benedict, State Dept. employee working on assignment from the
Conservation Foundation ------------------------------------
"We've got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of
global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing -- in terms
of economic policy and environmental policy." -- Timothy Wirth,
former
U.S. Senator (D-Colorado) ------------------------------------
"I suspect that the politicians and businessmen who are jumping
on the
environment bandwagon don't have the slightest idea of what they
are
getting into. They are talking about emission control devices on
automobiles, while we are talking about bans on automobiles." --
Dennis Hayes, Earth Day Agenda (1970)
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"Protecting the Environment' is a ruse. The goal is the political and
economic subjugation of most men by the few, under the guise of
preserving nature." -- J. H. Robbins
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". . . The collective needs of non-human species must take
precedence
over the needs and desires of humans." -- Dr. Reed F. Noss, The
Wildlands Project ------------------------------------
"Christianity is our foe. If animal rights is to succeed, we must
destroy the Judeo-Christian Religious tradition." -- Peter Singer, the
"Father of Animal Rights" ------------------------------------
"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." --
John
Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
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"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable
but a
good thing . . . This is not to say that the rise of human
civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it
will be much help to the world in the long run." -- The Economist
editorial ------------------------------------
"In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000
per
day." -- Dr. Jacques Cousteau ------------------------------------
"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong. It played an
important part in balancing ecosystems." -- John Davis, editor of
Earth First! Journal ------------------------------------
"People are the cause of all the problems; we have too many of
them;
we need to get rid of some of them, and this (ban of DDT) is as
good a
way as any." -- Charles Wurster, Environmental Defense Fund
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"When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical
Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of
individual freedom to Americans... and so a lot of people say there's
too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being
abused, you
have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I
made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're
going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to
make
people safer in their communities." -- President Bill Clinton,
3-22-94, MTV's "Enough is Enough" ------------------------------------
Editorial Comment: See First Editorial Comment.
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the
urge
to rule." -- H. L. Mencken ------------------------------------
". . . Our production and consumption is not sustainable . . .
Agenda
21 is to be implemented . . . The Texas Sustainable Energy
Development
Council will develop the Texas Plan . . . The money will come from
milking the utilities and redirecting oil overcharge funds . . . . "
-- Commissioner Karl Rabago, Texas Public Utilities Commission
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"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for
capitalists
and their projects . . . We must reclaim the roads and plowed land,
halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled
rivers
and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of
presently settled land." -- David Foreman, Earth First!
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". . . as radical environmentalists, we can see AIDS not as a
problem,
but as a necessary solution." -- Miss Ann Thropy (pseudonym),
Earth
First! Journal ------------------------------------
"The secret to David McTaggart's (early officer in Greanpeace)
success
is the secret to Greenpeace's success: It doesn't matter what is
true
. . . .it only matters what people believe is true . . . . You are
what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth,
and a
myth-generating machine." -- Paul Watson, co-founder of
Greenpeace
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"...the only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another
United States: We can't let other countries have the same number
of
cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have
to
stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is
important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer
economically by virtue of our stopping them." -- Michael
Oppenheimer,
Environmental Defense Fund -----------------------------------
Global Sustainability requires: "the deliberate quest of poverty . . .
reduced resource consumption . . . and set levels of mortality
control." -- Professor Maurice King
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"Giving society cheap, abundant energy . . . would be the equivalent
of giving an idiot child a machine gun." -- Paul Ehrlich, Stanford
University ------------------------------------
"...In short, the 'house of world order' will have to be built from
the bottom up rather than from the top down. It will look like a great
'booming, buzzing confusion,' to use William James' famous
description
of reality, but an end run around national sovereignty, eroding it
piece by piece, will accomplish much more than the old-fashioned
frontal assault." -- Richard N. Gardner, in "Foreign Affairs," April
1974. ------------------------------------
"The establishment of an American Soviet government will involve
the
confiscation of large landed estates in town and country, and also,
the whole body of forests, mineral deposits, lakes, rivers and so
on".
USA Communist Party Chief Gus Hall stated, '...The battle will
be
lost, not when freedom of speech is finally taken away, but when
Americans become so adjusted or conditioned to getting along with
the
group that when they finally see the threat, they say, "I can't afford
to be controversial" ' ". -- William Z. Foster, National Chairman of
the Communist Party, USA, restating in 1932 Point One of the
Communist
Manifesto, "The abolition of private property".
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"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the
propagation
of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and
tyrannical."
-- Thomas Jefferson ------------------------------------
"The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly
demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but
rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and
economic inefficiency."-- Pope John Paul I
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"The move toward controlling less and less pollution at greater and
greater expense -- until you are spending everything to control
nothing -- is one of the big water quality problems we are facing in
the future." -- Ernest Rosenberg ------------------------------------
"Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion
of a
day. But a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period,
and
pursued unalterably through every change of ministers
(administrations), too plainly proves a deliberate systematic plan of
reducing us to slavery." -- Thomas Jefferson
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"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
-- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an
endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." -- H. L.
Mencken
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But,
under
the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the
socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation,
without knowing how it happened." -- Norman Thomas, former U.S.
Socialist Presidential Candidate ------------------------------------
"Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the
freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human
beings
in the process . . . Capitalism is destroying the earth." -- Helen
Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
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"The only proper purpose of a government is to protect man's rights
.
. ." -- Ayn Rand ------------------------------------
"Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion." -- Murray
Rothbard
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"No government knows any limits to its power except the
endurance of
the people." -- Lysander Spooner ------------------------------------
27 August 1999
Murchison Chair of Free Enterprise
College of Engineering at UT Austin
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