Walter Lippmann Quote on Popular Government and Good Government
“Popular government has not yet been proved to guarantee, always and everywhere, good government.”
Walter Lippmann
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“When the Sun Rises” – Quote by Aldous Huxley
“When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.”
Aldous Huxley
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
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder” – Upton Sinclair
“Fascism is capitalism plus murder.”
Upton Sinclair
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. – H. L. Mencken
“Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.”
H. L. Mencken
Societal Conformity and Efficiency – Hans-Peter Dürr
“Society wants people to travel on fixed tracks. That way, you know where they’ll end up in an hour. This is more predictable than if they were to walk. It’s a disaster if they veer off onto a path into the woods halfway through the journey: Where will that get us? What about our efficiency? What about our dominance in the global market?”
Hans-Peter Dürr