Government as the Negation of Liberty – Ludwig von Mises Quote
“Government is essentially the negation of liberty.”
Ludwig von Mises
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Quote by Jimmy Carter about Life as an Ex-President
“I can’t deny I’m a better ex-president than I was a president.”
Jimmy Carter
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Popular Medicine, Knowledge, and Wisdom
“If popular medicine gave the people wisdom as well as knowledge, it would be the best protection for scientific and well-trained physicians.”
Rudolf Virchow
Star Culture and Competition in America – Quote by Charles Wright Mills
“The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on the Goal of Healing in Medicine
“Only those who regard healing as the ultimate goal of their efforts can, therefore, be designated as physicians.”
Rudolf Virchow
Age and Life Experience – Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man’s age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Quote by Rudolf Virchow on Science and Controversy
“No doubt science cannot admit of compromises, and can only bring out the complete truth. Hence there must be controversy, and the strife may be, and sometimes must be, sharp. But must it even then be personal? Does it help science to attack the man as well as the statement? On the contrary, has not science the noble privilege of carrying on its controversies without personal quarrels?”
Rudolf Virchow
Brevity in Writing – Quote by Rudolf Virchow
“Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal.”
Rudolf Virchow
Charles Wright Mills Quote on Power Elite and National Decisions
“By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
Charles Wright Mills
Quote by Charles Wright Mills on Opinions and Critical Thinking
“To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.”
Charles Wright Mills