« All Private Persons Quotes
·
Isabel Paterson's Page
Private Persons Quotes by Isabel Paterson
1 Private Persons quote by Isabel Paterson
More Quotes by Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson has 30 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you have to…
-
Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the…
-
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…
-
Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a…
-
There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the…
-
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…
-
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…
-
The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important.
See all 30 quotes by Isabel Paterson »
More Private Persons Quotes
Popular Private Persons quotes from across the collection:
-
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad…
— Isaac Barrow
-
All of the services commonly thought to require the State-from the coining of money to police protection to the development of law…
— Murray Rothbard
-
No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
— Isabel Paterson
-
History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage…
— Benjamin Franklin
-
It is with government paper, and bank paper, as it is with the paper of private persons; that is, it is worth…
— Lysander Spooner
-
Violence is not to be undertaken by private persons. If a state or administration acts without due and visible attention to agreed…
— Rowan Williams
-
...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform…
— Patrick O'Brian
-
The use of sea and air is common to all; neither can a title to the ocean belong to any people or…
— Elizabeth I
-
Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give…
— Dorothy Thompson
See all Private Persons Quotes »
Browse Isabel Paterson Quotes by Category