Community Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Since we humans do not want to return to the old selfish ways where we let the children of too-large families starve to death,…

— Richard Dawkins

Through the infinite Atonement, God has provided a means whereby we can both overcome our sins and become completely clean again. This is made…

— Earl C. Tingey

At first, laws evolved out of religious doctrines. It followed that they were recognized only when advantageous to those who practiced the same religion…

— Leon Bourgeois

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

— Marquis de Sade

By reserving the penalty of death for black defendants, or for the poor, or for those convicted of killing white persons, we perpetrate the…

— Joseph Lowery

The penalty of death is the only one that makes an injustice absolutely irreparable; from which it follows that the existence of the death…

— Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet

I am deeply worried about Donald Trump on matters of national security. He doesn't know anything himself about it, and he has appointed a…

— Tim Kaine

Obviously, consideration of costs is key, including opportunity costs. Of course capital isn't free. It's easy to figure out your cost of borrowing, but…

— Charlie Munger

In view of the importance of philanthropy in our society, it is surprising that so little attention has been given to it by economic…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

— Samuel Johnson

I will never probably have the mathematical foundation to truly understand what string theorists are talking about, but it feels good, just for its…

— Jon Spaihts

What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,…

— Murray Rothbard

Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern educational theorists, because I think…

— Bertrand Russell

Economic theorists should not make such a production about taking a rabbit out of a hat after having put the rabbit into the hat…

— Joan Robinson

I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much…

— Vincent Bugliosi