"If you go back 150 years you are……" — Isabel Paterson
"If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress."
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Isabel Paterson
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30 Quotes by Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson has 30 quotes on this site.
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Do you think nobody would willingly entrust his children to you or pay you for teaching them? Why do you…
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It…
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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.
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Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It…
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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…
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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them…
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Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society…
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
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The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek…
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or…
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The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves…
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