Philosophy Quote by Isabel Paterson

“The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man quick to…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each others' happiness, not by each other's…

— Charlie Chaplin

“The nourishment of the people is a good object; to massacre them is a bad means.”

— Victor Hugo

“Still, to slaughter fellow-citizens, to betray friends, to be devoid of honour, pity, and religion, cannot be counted as merits, for these are means…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

“Take terrorism, one example among the methods used in that struggle. We know that leftist tradition condemns terrorism and political assassination. When the colonized…

— Albert Memmi

“I began this path with a sense that an individual should be able to live in freedom among his neighbors, and not as a…

— William C. Samples

“Logic and morality made it impossible to accept an illogical and immoral reality; they engendered a rejection of reality which as a rule led…

— Primo Levi

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have…

— Robert Briffault

“There is mingled good and evil in all the events and governments of this world, and good often arises side by side with or…

— M. Guizot

“At times of social unrest when people begin to look for alternatives it is easy for that vacuum to be filled by those who…

— Neil Ormerod

“When, thirty-five years ago, I tried to give a summary of the ideas and principles of that social philosophy that was once known under…

— Ludwig von Mises

“A world compelled to good alone is as much a shrine to compulsion as a world compelled to evil only. The Twenty-first Voyage”

— Stanisław Lem