Quote by Voltaire about Self-Perception and Mirrors
“The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else’s eyes.”
Voltaire
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Quote by Voltaire on Self-Determination and Life Management
“You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.”
Voltaire
Quote by Samuel Adams on Freedom, Virtue, and Tyranny
“It is in the interest of tyrants to reduce the people to ignorance and vice. For they cannot live in any country where virtue and knowledge prevail. The religion and public liberty of a people are intimately connected; their interests are interwoven, they cannot subsist separately; and therefore they rise and fall together. For this reason, it is always observable, that those who are combin’d to destroy the people’s liberties, practice every art to poison their morals.”
Samuel Adams
Quote by Samuel Adams on Freedom and Defending Freedom
“All might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they should.”
Samuel Adams
Natural Rights of the Colonists – Quote by Samuel Adams
“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”
Samuel Adams
Quote by David Graeber on the Non-Industrious Poor
“I would like, then, to end by putting in a good word for the non-industrious poor. At least they aren’t hurting anyone. Insofar as the time they are taking time off from work is being spent with friends and family, enjoying and caring for those they love, they’re probably improving the world more than we acknowledge.”
David Graeber
Quote by George Bernard Shaw: Don’t Wait for the Right Opportunity
“Don’t wait for the right opportunity: create it.”
George Bernard Shaw
Quote by Robert A. Heinlein on Learning and Diversity of Opinion
“I never learned from a man who agreed with me.”
Robert A. Heinlein
Quote by Ludwig von Mises on Entrepreneurship and Education
“An entrepreneur cannot be trained. A man becomes and entrepreneur by seizing an opportunity and filling the gap. No special education is required for such a display of keen judgment, foresight, and energy.”
Ludwig von Mises
“Do Something Good” – Quote by Albert Schweitzer
“Do something good and someone might imitate it.”
Albert Schweitzer