Will Thomas
Will Thomas
Will Thomas may refer to:...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
libertarian outcomes procedures
You will never understand bureaucracies until you understand that for bureaucrats procedure is everything and outcomes are nothing.
liars successful reflection
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
errors sin human-nature
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
weight matter sometimes
If you can't beat them or join them, then do something weird. No matter how much the passengers eat, the weight of the plane stays the same. Do you sometimes feel that you are necessary but not sufficient?
social-values safety diversity
Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns.
faces conservative liberalism
Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face.
veterans-day time peace
If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.
veterans-day time motivation
These are the times that try men's souls.
wickedness age-of-reason humankind
Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.
freedom fear pain
He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
tyranny greater
There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.
supposing-that islands care
Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.
arms lasts conservative
The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest.
degenerates aristocracy tendencies
Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.