Artificial Quote by Josiah Warren

“Crucial decisions are made, today as thousands of years ago, in terms of the intuitive guesses and preferences of a few men in positions…

— Michael Lewis

There is... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government,…

— Thomas Jefferson

“One of the most important elements in the evolution of human institutions is the emergence of the difficult customer within the system itself, the…

— Richard Holloway

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The study of human institutions is always a search for the most tolerable imperfections.”

— Richard Allen Epstein

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary…

— Gloria Steinem

No reform ever came from the bottom, and it was always people who understood how the ruling class worked who turned out to be…

— Gore Vidal

The natural aristocracy I consider as the most precious gift of nature for the instruction, the trusts, and government of society. And indeed it…

— Thomas Jefferson

The founding fathers, in their wisdom, devised a method by which our republic can take one hundred of its most prominent numbskulls and keep…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they are), cannot…

— John Stuart Mill

“The worst conceivable government would be by philosophers; they botch every natural process with theory; their ability to make speeches and multiply ideas is…

— Will Durant

Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which,…

— Theodore Roosevelt