Quote of the Day: 11 April 2025 #QotD

“It can kill you fast, it can kill you slow, it can kill you hard or it can kill you softly, but in the end socialism, like its communist cousin, will kill you. It’s just it’s slow in most places, and people don’t notice.” -Sarah Hoyt

[Or have convinced themselves that they don't notice.]

Quote of the Day: 10 August 2024 #QotD

“Forget diamonds or dogs — a girl or boy’s best friend is always a high-powered weapon.” -Athena Hera Sinistra, Darkship Thieves
[They certainly make life more enjoyable.]

Quote of the Day: 20 July 2024 #QotD

“I guess bureaucrats are the same everywhere.” -Christopher Bartolomeu Klaavil, Darkship Thieves

[And just as annoying as they seek to perpetuate the existence of the bureaucracy and lord their power over all and sundry who come within their purview.]

Quote of the Day: 11 October 2023 #QotD

“[E]vil needs to be called out and stigmatized. Else, it will take over the world.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Given current events (which this quote is about) I thought this entirely appropriate.]

Quote of the Day: 8 September 2023 #QotD

“Books are communication. They aren’t complete till they’re read.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Happy Literacy Day!]

Quote of the Day: 10 November 2022 #QotD

“[T]hat’s the flaw of coulda shoulda woulda. We assume the path not taken would be utterly flawless and cause no issues whatsoever. But that’s not how humanity works.” -Sarah Hoyt
[It is so tempting to assume a single change in your past would have changed the entire trajectory of your life. The reality is that it almost certainly wouldn't. And that's hard to accept.]

Quote of the Day: 25 October 2022 #QotD

“It is the curse of humanity to forever wonder about paths not taken.” -Sarah Hoyt
[And boy do I. All the time. But this human tendency also leads to societal advancement. So, is it really all that bad?]

Quote of the Day: 6 August 2022 #QotD

“[I]f you ignore the needs and impulses of the flesh and blood, you’ll either lose your mind or your body.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Could be both, actually. And attending to the need of the flesh is no guarantee of preserving your mind and body, but it's a greater chance of success than disregarding them.]

Quote of the Day: 23 July 2022 #QotD

“Don’t give me your ideas. I’m on the run from mine.” -Sarah Hoyt
[People who have not worked on a creative endeavor tend to take their own ideas a little to preciously. What really matters is not that you come up with an idea that is truly original, but that you execute it to the best of your ability.]

Quote of the Day: 9 July 2022 #QotD

“But women are women. You can’t eliminate the downside of being a woman, without eliminating being a woman.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Stop trying to elide the differences between men and women. We are different, and that difference is significant and important. Men need women, and women need men in order for society to function properly.]

Quote of the Day: 9 June 2022 #QotD

“Everything in life has a price. And to force others to pay the price for the result you want is evil.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Forcing others to pay the price for the desired outcome is a defining characteristic of planned economies. Marxism in particular. And it is evil. There really is no other word for it.]

Quote of the Day: 28 February 2022 #QotD

“The truth is far more complicated. Of course it is. It involves humans.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Humanity is a great complication. And truth is rarely simple.]

Quote of the Day: 18 December 2021 #QotD

“Don’t feel guilty for existing. And never feel like you owe ‘the state’ or ‘society’ or whatever anything.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Someone else's expectations of you have no power over you unless you let them.]

Quote of the Day: 31 May 2021 #QotD

“They fought and died for their women, their children, their future. And to an extent, they succeeded, all of them (sometimes after a horrible interval where truly disgusting ways prevailed.) Because humanity is still here.” -Sarah Hoyt
[I certainly hope you have a meaningful Memorial Day. And that you take at least a moment for somber reflection.]

Quote of the Day: 19 June 2020

“[E]ven the ugly parts of history shouldn’t be forgotten. All the people who wanted every reference to the bad things we’d done in the past removed were fools. They were just trying to signal that they were better than their ancestors, but in fact, we’re no different. We’ve just got hindsight and their mistakes to learn from.” -Sarah Hoyt & Larry Correia
[This is not to say that nothing should change about how history is presented. But if we remove all traces, we are far more likely to repeat the mistakes of the past.]

Quote of the Day: 25 March 2020

“If we forget the atrocities of the past, we’ll repeat them in the future, just with prettier names and new justifications.” -Sarah Hoyt & Larry Correia
[Another reminder to learn from history. We've only to look back to see how crises are used to further the objectives of despots.]

Quote of the Day: 14 February 2020

“I like Valentine’s day because it’s a memory of the way things used to be before love was all about sex.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Happy Valentine's Day!
May your celebrations of love leave you full of joy and expand your love.]

Quote of the Day: 9 January 2020

“The truth is we [humans] don’t like reality very much, and are more or less perpetually at war with it.” -Sarah Hoyt

Quote of the Day: 11 November 2019

“It is important to neither romanticize war nor to demonize it. War is a function of being human.” -Sarah Hoyt
[Enjoy your commemoration of Veterans Day.]

Quote of the Day: 10 September 2019

“Let’s leave behind the blood soaked insanity of the 20th century. It has filled enough graves.” -Sarah Hoyt