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- Price fixing does not represent simply windfall gains and losses to particular groups according to whether the price happens to be set higher or lower…
- You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all…
- If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important…
- The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of…
- Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within…
- All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a…
- Hyperinflation can take virtually your entire life's savings, without the government having to bother raising the official tax rate at all.
- It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.
- All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not…
- In various countries and times, leaders of groups that lagged behind, economically and educationally, have taught their followers to blame all their problems on other…
- Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda…
- What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution…
- Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all…
- If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind…
- Do all children have some inherent right to live in America if they have done nothing wrong? If not, then why should the children of…
- The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle