“When the Sun Rises” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”
Aldous Huxley
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Criticism and Admiration of Princes – Walter Lippmann
“Only the very rarest of princes can endure even a little criticism, and few of them can put up with even a pause in the adulation.”
Walter Lippmann
Aldous Huxley on Intelligence and Humanity
“If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb.”
Aldous Huxley
Murray Rothbard on Freedom and Moral Choice
“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”
Murray Rothbard
Personal Responsibility – Thomas Sowell
“The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one’s own behavior.”
Thomas Sowell
There Is No Average Man – Aldous Huxley
“In real life there is no such person as the average man.”
Aldous Huxley
“Art Enlarges Experience” – Quote by Walter Lippmann
“Art enlarges experience by admitting us to the inner life of others.”
Walter Lippmann
Murray Rothbard on the Welfare State and Redistribution
“The modern welfare state, highly touted as soaking the rich to subsidize the poor, does no such thing. In fact, soaking the rich would have disastrous effects, not just for the rich but for the poor and middle classes themselves. For it is the rich who provide a proportionately greater amount of saving, investment capital, entrepreneurial foresight, and financing of technological innovation that has brought the Unites States to by far the highest standard of living – for the mass of the people – of any country in history.”
Murray Rothbard
Walter Lippmann on Income Distribution and Efficiency
“A better distribution of incomes would increase that efficiency by diverting a great fund of wealth from the useless to the useful members of society. To cut off the income of the useless will not impair their efficiency. They have none to impair. It will, in fact, compel them to acquire a useful function.”
Walter Lippmann
Responsibility and Work in Society – Thomas Sowell
“You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization – including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain – without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large.”
Thomas Sowell