Amount Quote by Raymond Chandler

Frankly, I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we…

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Socialism constitutes a threat to the present and future welfare of the human race, in the sense that neither socialism nor any other known…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Pushing yourself to extremes blows out the cobwebs of trusted habit. It shakes up what you know to be reliably safe and substitutes the…

— Robert Genn

Happiness is a rare plant that seldom takes root on earth-few ever enjoyed it, except for a brief period; the search after it is…

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

We are taught not to perceive but to avoid direct perceptions of reality and to substitute instead this kind of one-dimensional view of life.

— Frederick Lenz

Having spent years ruining the housing markets with their interference, leading to a housing meltdown that has taken the whole economy down with it,…

— Thomas Sowell

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

— Lamar S. Smith

Love is just a chocolate substitute.

— Anonymous

There is only one good substitute for the endearments of a sister, and that is the endearments of some other fellow's sister.

— Josh Billings

Every step by which an individual substitutes concerted action for isolated action results in an immediate and recognizable improvement in his conditions. The advantages…

— Ludwig von Mises

We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we…

— William James

I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for…

— Charles Dickens