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- The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose…
- The early industrialists were for the most part men who had their origin in the same social strata from which their workers came. They lived…
- It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and…
- The consumers suffer when the laws of the country prevent the most efficient entrepreneurs from expanding the sphere of their activities. What made some enterprises…
- The truth is that most people lack the intellectual ability and courage to resist a popular movement, however pernicious and ill-considered.
- The most serious dangers for American freedom and the American way of life do not come from without.
- An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are…
- There is but one means available to improve the material conditions of mankind: to accelerate the growth of capital accumulated as against the growth in…
- Competition on the market aims at assigning to every individual that function in the social system in which he can render to all his fellow…
- Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are not contrary to…
- Whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.
- They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,…
- Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills…
- Inequality of wealth and incomes is an essential feature of the market economy. It is the implement that makes the consumers supreme in giving them…
- Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster