“If You Truly Desire Happiness” – Albert Schweitzer
“If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve.”
Albert Schweitzer
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The Origin of Free Market Ideology – David Graeber
“Free market ideology – does anyone know where it first comes from? It comes from medieval Islam, and specifically, Shari’a. Because Shari’a provided this commercial law that is independent from the state.”
David Graeber
Quote by David Graeber on the Historical Origins of the Market
“[A] great embarrassing fact… haunts all attempts to represent the market as the highest form of human freedom: that historically, impersonal, commercial markets originate in theft.”
David Graeber
Quote by Samuel Adams on Submission and Loyalty
“Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams Quote on Liberty, Laws, and Morality
“Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.”
Samuel Adams
Quote by Voltaire on Reason and Humanity
“The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.”
Voltaire
Quote by Samuel Adams on Responsibility Towards Posterity
“Shame on the men who can court exemption from present trouble and expense at the price of their own posterity’s liberty!”
Samuel Adams
Happiness Through Service – Albert Schweitzer Quote
“I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”
Albert Schweitzer
Quote by Voltaire on the Tyranny of the Many
“The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.”
Voltaire
Nil desperandum – Quote by Samuel Adams on Hope and Patriotism
“Nil desperandum, — Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it.”
Samuel Adams