Crawling Quote by Isabel Paterson

“Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.” quote by Isabel Paterson — Download Open image

“Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.”

Isabel Paterson

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“Newton was asked as a mathematician, not as a moralist. He replied 'Gentlemen, in applied mathematics, you must describe your unit.”

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But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a…

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“But in a free enterprise economy, increased production increases the number of jobs. It might be said that one job creates another, which is true as far as it goes, but open to misinterpretation; for only productive employment does that. If a man were paid to pick up pebbles on the beach and throw them into the ocean, it would…

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Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy sooner or later. . . . Once that doctrine has been accepted, it becomes an almost superhuman task to break the stranglehold of the political power over the life of the citizen. It has had his body, property and mind in its clutches from infancy. An octopus would…

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Nothing increases the number of jobs so rapidly as labor-saving machinery, because it releases wants theretofore unknown, by permitting leisure.

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If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

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“The intrinsic nature of the power authorized was so little realized that this was called "free education," the most absolute contradiction of facts by terminology of which the language is capable. Everything about such schools is compulsory, not free; and the true nature of the institution has developed so fully along its own lines with the passage of time that…

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Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

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“Why did the humanitarian philosophy of eighteenth century Europe usher in the Reign of Terror? It did not happen by chance; it followed from…

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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree…

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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over…

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