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With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governments of history have used their exclusive power to…
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'Emergencies' have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded.
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The mind cannot foresee its own advance.
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...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a…
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All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in…
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The system of private property is the most important guaranty of freedom, not only for those who own property, but scarcely less…
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The ultimate decision about what is accepted as right and wrong will be made not by individual human wisdom but by the…
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the deliberate treatment…
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What a free society offers to the individual is much more than what he would be able to do if only he…
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Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of…
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Capitalism is not only a better form of organizing human activity than any deliberate design, any attempt to organize it to satisfy…
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The principle that the end justifies the means is in individualist ethics regarded as the denial of all morals. In collectivist ethics…
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Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as…
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…
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Great intellects are skeptical.
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from…
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Because there are three classes of intellects: one which comprehends by itself; another which appreciates what others comprehend; and a third which…
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There are people who live inside their heads and their intellects. It's something one is born with and stuck with. It's not…
— Charles Simic
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Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.
— Edward Thorndike
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...we may be able to prove conclusively that all men are born with potentially brilliant intellects...and that the source of cultural creativity…
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