Sadi of Shiraz Quote: Patience Brings Ease – Wisdom from the Great Poet
“Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.”
Sadi of Shiraz
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“He Wears a Mask” – Quote by George Orwell
“He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it.”
George Orwell
“War against a foreign country” – Quote by George Orwell
“War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it.”
George Orwell
Quote About the Obvious by George Orwell
“We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
George Orwell
Authoritarians and Libertarians – Quote by George Orwell
“The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians.”
George Orwell
George Orwell on Revolution and Dictatorship
“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.”
George Orwell
Murray Rothbard on Life Paths and Unequal Opportunities
“Human life is not some sort of race or game in which each person should start from an identical mark. It is an attempt by each man to be as happy as possible. And each person could not begin from the same point, for the world has not just come into being; it is diverse and infinitely varied in its parts. The mere fact that one individual is necessarily born in a different place from someone else immediately insures that his inherited opportunity cannot be the same as his neighbor’s.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Minimum Wages and Unemployment
“Minimum wage laws tragically generate unemployment, especially so among the poorest and least skilled or educated workers… Because a minimum wage, of course, does not guarantee any worker’s employment; it only prohibits, by force of law, anyone from being hired at the wage which would pay his employer to hire him.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Liberty and Political Action
“I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up…. Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.”
Murray Rothbard
Murray Rothbard on Anarchist Society and Property
“I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual.”
Murray Rothbard