Thomas Vandegrift:  

Thomas is from Temple City, California. Thomas's schools include Temple City High School. Books Thomas likes include Anthropology, The Kite Runner, George Orwell. Movies Thomas likes include Gladiator, Dumb and Dumber, The Terminator. One of Thomas's favorite quotes is:""The man who refuses to judge, who neither agrees nor disagrees, who declares that there are no absolutes and believes that he escapes responsibility, is the man responsible for all the blood that is now spilled in the world." -Ayn Rand "Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [with] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff" - Clare Booth Luce "When one acts on pity against justice, it is the good whom one punishes for the sake of the evil; when one saves the guilty from suffering, it is the innocent whom one forces to suffer." -Ayn Rand "When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use." -Joseph Stalin "A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom" - Milton Friedman. "The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are. Never under any circumstances admit that his success may be due to his own efforts, to the productive contribution he has made to the whole community. Always attribute his success to the exploitation, the cheating, the more or less open robbery of others. Never under any circumstances admit that your own failure may be owing to your own weakness, or that the failure of anyone else may be due to his own defects--his laziness, incompetence, improvidence, or stupidity" -- Henry Hazlitt. "So my answer to the offended is, you have every right to be offended. Now, grow up. If you can't sit at the table of reasoned debate, go back to your bread and circuses. Let the adults figure out the problems of the world." --Selwyn Duke "The quintessential, unassailable truth that distills from centuries of experience with socialism is that when it isn't arrogantly bossing people around, it's stifling, strangling, or killing them. It's based on the ludicrous assumption that people who have a hard time planning their own lives and often fail at it can nonetheless plan the lives of not just a handful of others around them, but the lives o...Expand for more