"The biggest pests are the people who use……" — Isabel Paterson
"The biggest pests are the people who use altruism as an alibi. What they passionately wish is to make themselves important."
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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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An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea.
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More Alibi Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants.
— Albert Camus
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It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are…
— Albert Camus
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No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
— Napoleon Hill
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Conscription is an impediment to achieving the forces Australia needs. It is an alibi for failing to give proper conditions…
— Gough Whitlam
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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'Home Alone' was a movie, not an alibi.
— Jerry Orbach
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You must have an alibi to show why you lost. If you haven't one, you must fake one. You self…
— Christy Mathewson
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Think and then act. Never act and then alibi.
— Henry Iba
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If you pick up a golfer and hold it close to your ear, like a conch shell, and listen, you…
— Fred Beck
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None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.
— Andrea Gibson
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Never ask a man where's he's been. If he's out on legitimate business, he doesn't need an alibi. And, girls,…
— Mae West
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I graduated first in my class from alibi school.
— Jeffrey McDaniel
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