“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state” – Milton Friedman
“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.”
Milton Friedman
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Henry Ford on Education and Independent Thinking
“The object of education is not to fill a man’s mind with facts; it is to teach him how to use his mind in thinking.”
Henry Ford
“A poor man is not the one without a cent” – Henry Ford
“A poor man is not the one without a cent. A poor man is the one without a dream.”
Henry Ford
Quote About Reason and Madness by Aldous Huxley
“Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman.”
Aldous Huxley
Milton Friedman Quote on the Free Market and Freedom
“Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.”
Milton Friedman
Holistic Worldview and Beliefs – Quote by Rich Lusk
“As Quine has said, ‘Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.’ Quine has uncovered an important feature of human thought here, one that the analytic-synthetic distinction overlooks. Beliefs are not held or tested atomistically, in a one-by-one fashion. Rather beliefs come in clusters, forming a worldview, which is then used to interpret experience. One’s worldview as a whole confronts the data of language and experience. Simple appeals to language (analyticity) or observation (syntheticity) do not reveal whether or not our beliefs will be altered when challenged. People will grant revisionary immunity to certain core beliefs not on the basis of linguistics, but on the basis of an overall worldview. Those beliefs that are held most dearly and form the hearts of one’s conceptual scheme will be the hardest to let go and the last we let go. Indeed, all of us have beliefs we will cling to regardless of almost anything! Only a revolution in our conceptual framework will alter these most central beliefs. These beliefs often appear to be almost insulated from testing; indeed, they are the standard by which everything else is tested…This is not to say that all human beings think in consistent systems, or even that most are aware of the nature of their own thought. It is virtually certain that everyone holds to some incompatible or inconsistent beliefs. Most people do not reflect on their own thinking enough to notice these inconsistencies or to notice the ‘worldviewesh’ character of their thought.”
Rich Lusk
Ian Smith Jr. on Government and Society
“Everything the government is doing right now is designed to make you fat, weak, stupid, depressed, lazy, and reliant on crumbs they wipe off their plates. Health replaced by pharmaceuticals. Education replaced by programming. Hard work replaced by handouts. These people hate you.”
Ian Smith Jr.
Future Models and Optimism – Hans-Peter Dürr
“We need models for the future that don’t paint everything as bleak and gloomy, but rather set worthwhile goals. I would like human society to take a more optimistic approach to planning for the future. We should encourage individuals to use their imagination to make even small changes. That, in fact, is the concept of the future.”
Hans-Peter Dürr
Quote by H. L. Mencken about Politicians and Honesty
“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
H. L. Mencken
Erich Fromm Quote about Thinking and Happiness
“Well now, I believe we are much less stupid than it seems. We are trained not to think. Formulas are drilled into us, which we parrot.
But I believe that if the desire for true happiness, for true knowledge were to fully awaken among people in society – what the Enlightenment called with Kant’s words: Sapere aude! Dare to know! – and not to consume canned wisdom that someone else has cooked and served, and then even experienced oneself as if I had thought such a thing…
I believe that tremendous change could be achieved.
People are not that stupid at all. But it is dangerous not to be stupid. Because if you are not stupid, you contradict, criticize, express unpopular opinions. And for safety reasons, it is better to appear stupid.”
Erich Fromm