"The more a person learns how to use……" — Friedrich List
"The more a person learns how to use the forces of nature for his own purposes, by means of perfecting the sciences and the invention and improvement of machines, the more he will produce."
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9 Quotes by Friedrich List
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Only now did I recognize the reciprocal relationship which exists between manufacturing power and the national system of transportation, and…
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It is bad policy to regulate everything... where things may better regulate themselves and can be better promoted by private…
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The concentration and reciprocal effect of industry and agriculture conjoin in a growth of productive powers, which increases more in…
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Industry entirely left to itself, would soon fall to ruin, and a nation letting everything alone would commit suicide.
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But the general welfare must restrict and regulate the exertions of the individuals, as the individuals must derive a supply…
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An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may…
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Look around, and you see everywhere the exertions and acts of individuals restricted, regulated, or promoted, on the principle of…
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The relationship I have to my fatherland is like that of mothers with crippled children: they love them all the…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each…
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own…
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces…
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in…
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Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin.
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The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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