esr quotes

Everything you know is wrong. But some of it is a useful first approximation.
-- Eric S. Raymond

The abortion rights and gun control debates are twin aspects of a deeper
question --- does an individual ever have the right to make decisions
that are literally life-or-death? And if not the individual, who does?
-- Eric S. Raymond

Alcohol still kills more people every year than all `illegal' drugs put
together, and Prohibition only made it worse. Oppose the War On Some Drugs!
-- Eric S. Raymond

Hoplophobia (n.): The irrational fear of weapons, correctly described by
Freud as "a sign of emotional and sexual immaturity". Hoplophobia, like
homophobia, is a displacement symptom; hoplophobes fear their own
"forbidden" feelings and urges to commit violence. This would be
harmless, except that they project these feelings onto others. The
sequelae of this neurosis include irrational and dangerous behaviors
such as passing "gun-control" laws and trashing the Constitution.
-- Eric S. Raymond

Our society won't be truly free until "None of the Above" is always an option.
-- Eric S. Raymond

The men and women who founded our country knew, by experience, that there
are times when the free person's answer to oppressive government has to be
delivered with a bullet. Thus, the right to bear arms is not just *a*
freedom; it's the mother of all freedoms. Don't let them disarm you!
-- Eric S. Raymond

Rapists just *love* unarmed women. And the politicians who disarm them.
-- Eric S. Raymond

Never trust a man who praises compassion while pointing a gun at you.
-- Eric S. Raymond

The kind of charity you can force out of people nourishes about as much as
the kind of love you can buy --- and spreads even nastier diseases.
-- Eric S. Raymond

There's a truism that the road to Hell is often paved with good intentions.
The corollary is that evil is best known not by its motives but by its
*methods*.
-- Eric S. Raymond