Characteristic Feature Quotes
- Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
- The state is essentially an apparatus of compulsion and coercion. The characteristic feature of its activities is to compel people through the application or the… — Ludwig von Mises
- It is perhaps the most characteristic feature of the intellectual that he judges new ideas not by their specific merits but by the readiness with… — Friedrich August von Hayek
- The characteristic feature of capitalism that distinguishes it from pre-capitalist methods of production was its new principle of marketing. Capitalism is not simply mass production,… — Ludwig von Mises
- Unsatisfied desire is the characteristic feature of human life. That is the common fact out of which both pessimism and optimism are constructed. Dwell on… — William DeWitt Hyde
- The characteristic feature of militarism is not the fact that a nation has a powerful army or navy. It is the paramount role assigned to… — Ludwig von Mises
- The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality - without exploiting them for fun and… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The characteristic feature of all ethics is to consider human life as a game that can be won or lost and to teach man the… — Simone de Beauvoir