Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

-Thomas Hobbes

Ehhh… I gotta tell ya Rob, she wouldn’t have been my first choice for babe of the week.

I love reading Ayn Rand’s works. She accurately describes the Left and their collectivist allies in her essays.

No, I was just re-reading parts of Buckley’s Getting It Right (a work of historical fiction that features Rand prominently) and was doing some Googling of Rand and ran across it.

Most of these “bite sized wisdom” things are just interesting quotes I run across in my reading. I’ve always wanted to do something with them here on the blog but couldn’t figure out how to fit them in. When I first started I put related quotes at the top of every post, but that became too labor intensive. Then I had rotating quotes at the top of the page, but that had size limitations and the javascript that was loading it started causing problems as traffic here increased.

So the other day the “bite sized wisdom” idea came to me. So far, I’m enjoying it. I especially like looking for the pictures of the people. I’ve found that I have no idea what some of the people I read and admire look like.