“Without Property Rights” – Quote by Ayn Rand
“Without property rights, no other rights are possible.”
Ayn Rand
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Leo Tolstoi Quote About Love and Sorrow
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
Leo Tolstoi
Resource Consumption and Children: Quote by John Taylor Gatto
“Shouldn’t we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the “most” of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?”
John Taylor Gatto
Quote by Leo Tolstoy on Selfless Charity
“it’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.”
Leo Tolstoi
Proudhon on Anarchy and Order | Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“By no means. I have just given you my serious and well-considered profession of faith. Although a firm friend of order, I am (in the full force of the term) an anarchist. Listen to me.”
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Thomas Sowell on Fairness and Politics
“‘Fair’ is one of the most dangerous concepts in politics. Since no two people are likely to agree on what is ‘fair,’ this means that there must be some third party with power – the government – to impose its will. The road to despotism is paved with ‘fairness’.”
Thomas Sowell
Milton Friedman on Ownership and Maintenance
“When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That is why buildings in the Soviet Union – like public housing in the United States – look decrepit within a year or two of their construction.”
Milton Friedman
Lafayette on Property and Equality in America
“In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country.”
Lafayette
Meaning and Purpose in Modern Life – John Taylor Gatto
“Our cultural dilemma has nothing to do with children who don’t read very well. It lies instead in the difficulty of finding a way to restore meaning and purpose to modern life.”
John Taylor Gatto
Ayn Rand on the Founding Fathers as Thinkers and Men of Action
“The Founding Fathers were neither passive, death-worshipin g mystics nor mindless, power-seeking looters; as a political group they were a phenomenon unprecedented in history: they were thinkers who were also men of action.”
Ayn Rand