| Author |
Quotes |
| Henry David Thoreau | What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? |
| James Russell Lowell | The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. |
| John Milton | There is no truth sure enough to justify persecution. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | Human civilization is not something achieved against nature, it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | The philosophy called individualism is a philosophy of social cooperation and the progressive intensification of the social nexus. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | Society is joint action and cooperation in which each participant sees the other partner's success as a means for the attainment of his own. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | Society is only possible on these terms, that the individual finds therein a strengthening of his own ego and his own will. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | Progress cannot be organized. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | The avowed aim of all utopian movements is to put an end to history and to establish a final and permanent calm. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | Historical knowledge is indispensable for those who want to build a better world. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behavior...lacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity. |
| Ludwig Von Mises | The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it. |
| Oscar Wilde | To get into the best society nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people. |
| Robert Browning | A people is but the attempt of many To rise to the completer life of one-- And those who live as models for the mass Are singly of more value than they all. |
| Robert Burns | Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! |
| Samuel Johnson | I live in the crowds of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself. |
| Thomas Sowell | The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutions" that get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination. |
| Thomas Sowell | each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. |
| Thomas Sowell | The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization. |
| Thomas Sowell | Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the "complexity" of the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds. |
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