Isabel Paterson Quotes

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• Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to extort your fees…
• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their…
• A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their…
• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
• There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they…
• Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
• The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
• The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist…
• The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
• The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which…
• The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
• An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
• Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.
• The craving for power is in itself a sign of inferior abilities and unfitness for responsibility.
• If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name…
• What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in…
• The power to do things for people is also the power to do things to people.
• If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.
• People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

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