Moral Guidance and Authority – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“The search for moral guidance which shall not depend upon external authority has invariably ended in the acknowledgment of some new authority.”
Walter Lippmann
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Success and Happiness – Walter Lippmann Quote
“All achievement should be measured in human happiness.”
Walter Lippmann
Juvenal Quote on Justice and Conscience
“This is his first punishment, that by the verdict of his own heart no guilty man is acquitted.”
Juvenal
“An intellectual is a person …” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“An intellectual is a person who’s found one thing that’s more interesting than sex.”
Aldous Huxley
Criticism and Achievement – Thomas Sowell Quotes
“Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism.”
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell: The Problem with Thinking
“The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.”
Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell Quote on Barack Obama
“Whether Barack Obama is simply incompetent as president or has some hidden agenda to undermine this country, at home and abroad, he has nearly everything he needs to ruin America, including a fool for a vice president”
Thomas Sowell
Three Critical Questions for the Left – Thomas Sowell
“There are 3 questions that would destroy most of the arguments of the Left. The first is – compared to what? The second is – at what cost? And the third is – what hard evidence do you have?”
Thomas Sowell
Murray Rothbard on the State and Private Services
“All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law in defense of the rights of person and property-can be and have been supplied far more efficiently and certainly more morally by private persons. The State is in no sense required by the nature of man; quite the contrary.”
Murray Rothbard
Thomas Sowell on the Political Left and Human Tragedy
“What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition. Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves.”
Thomas Sowell