#rear

When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked if I had any firearms with me. I said, "Well, what do you need?" ↗

— Steven Wright

#asked #border #canada #crossing #firearms

Germans who wish to use firearms should join the SS or the SA - ordinary citizens don't need guns, as their having guns doesn't serve the State. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#firearms #germans #guns #having #join

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person

My career means, if you're a non-Indian writing about Indians, at least there's one Indian in your rearview mirror. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#career #indian #indians #least #means

We should have a system of licensing and registration, we should treat firearms the same way that automobiles are treated so that people have to pass a safety test. ↗

— Michael D. Barnes

#firearms #licensing #pass #people #registration

For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. ↗

— Luther Burbank

#least #once #prejudices #rearrange #their

We had gay burglars the other night. They broke in and rearranged the furniture. ↗

— Robin Williams

#burglars #furniture #gay #had #night

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#become #child #criticism #important #important tools

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive. ↗

— George Eliot

#life #makes #motive #want

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#alive #another #city #creation #death