"What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate……" — Isabel Paterson
"What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way."
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Isabel Paterson
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30 Quotes by Isabel Paterson
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The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly.
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The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.
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