Barriers Quote by Steven W. Mosher

“The intention of this book is to explain how an ill-educated, psychologically unbalanced nonentity succeeded in mesmerizing an entire nation,”

— Paul Roland

“Because elites dominating extractive institutions fear creative destruction, they will resist it, and any growth that germinates under extractive institutions will be ultimately short…

— Daron Acemoğlu

“It was civilization itself which inflicted this wound upon modern man. Once the increase of empirical knowledge, and more exact modes of thought, made…

— Friedrich von Schiller

“What I’m talking about is the order of chosen men who inherit power. From Pharaohs and kings to bankers and executives. Their path is…

— Nick Drnaso

“Your scorn for mediocrity blinds you to its vast primitive power. You stand in the glare of your own brilliance, unable to see into…

— Trevanian

“We've rigged the entire system of living in harmony with nature against ourselves. We raise our children & inculcate various "isms" into them. They…

— Mamur Mustapha

“The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size strength and intelligence.”

— Anonymous

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass…

— Mark Twain

“It isn't just physical ability and average intelligence but an insatiable appetite for success and an unflagging will power that would texture the warp…

— MP Anil Kumar

“If you permit unprincipled and ambitious men to monopolize the soil, they will become masters of the country in the certain order of cause…

— Howard Zinn

“Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding”

— John Kenneth Galbraith

“While we maintain the unity of the human species, we at the same time repel the depressing assumption of superior and inferior races of…

— Alexander von Humboldt