Altruism Quote by John Stuart Mill

By consequence I hold that no one ever did, or can do, anything for "society."... Comte invented the term altruism as an antonym for…

— Albert J. Nock

“The great bourgeois revolutions of modern times offered an ideology of sweeping political reconstitution, but in reality they merely certified the social dominance of…

— Murray Bookchin

“A stable social system is necessary, but every stable system hitherto devised has hampered the development of exceptional artistic or intellectual merit. How much…

— Bertrand Russell

“I seek to trace the novel features under which despotism may appear in the world. The first thing that strikes the observation is an…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Virtue is the product of good government. ‘Vices belong less to man, than to man badly governed.’ The political process, and the new kind…

— Paul Johnson

“Indeed, the modern arguments about the necessities and virtues of government control over the individual are but malign echoes of utopian prescriptions through the…

— Mark R. Levin

“according to Montesquieu, the persons, the liberties, the property, mankind itself, are nothing but materials to exercise the sagacity of lawgivers." Rousseau.”

— Frédéric Bastiat

“It was the ideas of the classical economists that removed the checks imposed by age-old laws, customs, and prejudices upon technological improvement and freed…

— Ludwig von Mises

“According to this conception, the ultimate causes of all social changes and political revolutions are not increasing insight into justice; they are to be…

— Karl R. Popper

“Two ideas are opposed — not concepts or abstractions, but Ideas which were in the blood of men before they were formulated by the…

— Francis Parker Yockey

“The superior person cultivates virtue by bringing about revolution within himself.”

— I Ching

“These ideas grew out of the Enlightenment; their roots are in Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Humboldt’s Limits of State Action, Kant’s insistence, in his…

— Noam Chomsky