The welfare state is institutionalized crime - 'organized plunder,' as the French economist Frederic Bastiat called it. It systematizes what is intrinsically… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share Image
The necessity for external government to man is in an inverse ratio to the vigor of his self-government. Where the last is… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Personal rights, universally the same, demand a government framed on the ratio of the census: property demands a government framedon the ratio… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I do read a lot, and I think in recent years the ratio between the amount of non-fiction and fiction has tipped… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
In a spiral galaxy, the ratio of dark-to-light matter is about a factor of ten. That's probably a good number for the… — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
Success is to be measured not by wealth, power, or fame, but by the ratio between what a man is and what… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
The movie industry had it better in the '30s and '40s, in terms of gender equality, than it does now, both in… — Daryl Hannah Copy Share Image
Compounds of gaseous substances with each other are always formed in very simple ratios, so that representing one of the terms by… — Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac Copy Share Image
The terrible tabulation of the French statists brings every piece of whim and humor to be reducible also to exact numerical ratios.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
The heaven is spherical in shape, and moves as a sphere; the earth too is sensibly spherical in shape, when taken as… — Ptolemy Copy Share Image
I realized that the world did not exist for my benefit. It followed that the ratio of pleasant and unpleasant things around… — Banana Yoshimoto Copy Share Image
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
To regulate something always requires two opposing factors. You cannot regulate by a single factor. To give an example, the traffic in… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
I'd like to stand up for the rights of people who put everything on their burger - chutney, mustard, pickle, mustard pickle,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
[I]f you look at United States history since World War II, you find that of the 10 presidents who preceded Barack Obama,… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
He learned to communicate with birds and discovered their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to do with windspeed, wingspans, power-to-weight… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
I don't know what the effective ratio would be, but I've always had some sort of intuition that for every hour you… — Glenn Gould Copy Share Image
The ratio of authentic literature to trash in pornography may be somewhat lower than the ratio of novels of genuine literary meritto… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share… — Ian Macfarlane Copy Share Image
If you want to double your success ratio, you have to double your failure ratio. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Forethought and prudence are the proper qualities of a leader. [Lat., Ratio et consilium, propriae ducis artes.] — Tacitus Copy Share Image
There was a danger that skeptics and opponents would misread those likelihood ratio tests as rejections of an entire class of models,… — Thomas J. Sargent Copy Share Image
I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
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