Walter Lippmann on the Weaknesses of Socialism and Capitalism
“Corrupt, stupid grasping functionaries will make at least as big a muddle of socialism as stupid, selfish and acquisitive employers can make of capitalism.”
Walter Lippmann
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Dialogue and Freedom – Walter Lippmann Quote
“When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may voice their opinions because they must examine their opinions.”
Walter Lippmann
Crisis of Democracy Through Journalism – Walter Lippmann
“The present crisis of Western democracy is a crisis in journalism.”
Walter Lippmann
Democracy and Public Opinion – Walter Lippmann
“Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.”
Walter Lippmann
The Absolute Power of the State – Walter Lippmann
“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”
Walter Lippmann
Bernardo Kastrup on Materialism
“materialism is a fantasy. It’s based on unnecessary postulates, circular reasoning and selective consideration of evidence and data. Materialism is by no stretch of the imagination a scientific conclusion, but merely a metaphysical opinion that helps some people interpret scientific conclusions.”
Bernardo Kastrup
Ayn Rand on Morality and Responsibility – Quote
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded. Do not ask, “Who is destroying the world?” You are.”
Ayn Rand
“More Interested in Human Beings Than Rules” – Quote by John Taylor Gatto
“Anyone who is more interested in human beings than in the rules is a threat to the system.”
John Taylor Gatto
Quote About Ignorance by Leo Tolstoy
“When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.”
Leo Tolstoi
Quote by Leo Tolstoy on Convictions and War
“If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
Leo Tolstoi