Quote by Socrates on Self-Reflection and Human Excellence
“I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.”
Sokrates
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Wisdom of Knowledge Quote by Socrates
“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.”
Sokrates
Philosophical Quote by Socrates on Life and Wisdom
“When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations. But now I understand that the Way winds like a river, always changing, ever onward.. My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.”
Sokrates
William Blum on US Foreign Policy, Communism, and the American Empire
“The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington’s global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy – communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.”
William Blum
Quote by William Blum on Chutzpah and the Iraq War
“Do you remember the classic example of chutzpah? It’s the young man who kills his parents and then asks the judge for mercy on the grounds that he’s an orphan. The Bush administration’s updated version of that was starting a wholly illegal, immoral, and devastating war and then dismissing all kinds of criticism of its action on the grounds that ‘we’re at war.”
William Blum
Hans-Hermann Hoppe Quote on the Relationship between Democracy and Dictatorship
“Not only is this close correlation between democracy and dictatorship troublesome for democratic-peace theorists; worse, they must come to grips with the fact that the dictatorships emerging from crises of democracy are by no means always worse, from a classical liberal or libertarian view, than what would have resulted otherwise.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on the Market as Democracy
“The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.”
Ludwig von Mises
Quote by Hans-Hermann Hoppe on the Critique of Democracy by the U.S. Founding Fathers
“Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.”
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Socialism and Destruction of Civilization
“Socialism is not in the least what it pretends to be. It is not the pioneer of a better and finer world, but the spoiler of what thousands of years of civilization have created. It does not build, it destroys. For destruction is the essence of it. It produces nothing, it only consumes what the social order based on private ownership in the means of production has created.”
Ludwig von Mises
Comfort Makes You Weaker – Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
“Comfort makes you weaker. We need some variability, some stressors. Not too much, but just enough.”
Nassim Nicholas Taleb