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“It must be thoroughly understood that war is a necessity, and that the more readily we accept it,the less will be the ardor of our opponents, and that out of the greatest dangers communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.”

War Individual Community Accepting Danger Glory Understood Opponents Acquire Ardor

Book:The Landmark Thucydides

Source: The Landmark Thucydides

“The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.”

Soul Ends Desire Certain Individual Strong Numbers Habit Limits Species Acquire Preservation Accustomed Superfluous

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“The trouble is with socialism, which resembles a form of mental illness more than it does a philosophy. Socialists get bees in their bonnets. And because they chronically lack any critical faculty to examine and evaluate their ideas, and because they are pathologically unwilling to consider the opinions of others, and most of all, because socialism is a mindset that regards the individual and his rights as insignificant, compared to whatever the socialist believes the group needs, terrible, terrible things happen when socialists acquire power.”

“The physical life of an individual person is limited, but the life of the masses united as an independent social-political organism is immortal. Only when an individual becomes a member of this community can he acquire the immortal social-political life.”

Persons Political Individual Social Community United Members Mass Independent Acquire Immortal Organisms Political Life

Author:Kim Jong Il

“No Keynesian has ever proposed a measure designed to make the individual more productive; for that would require institutional means for enabling him to acquire ownership of the nonhuman factor of production: capital.”

Mean Wisdom Politics Individual Economy Productions Factors Liberalism Acquire Productive Ownership Enabling Factors Of Production

Book:Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

Source: Two-factor Theory: the Economics of Reality; how to Turn Eighty Million Workers Into Capitalists on Borrowed Money, and Other Proposals

“I think the corruption of power is very interesting, and I think the idea that power is something that... You know, when people want power, they're a certain individual. When people acquire power by accident, they're different again.”

People Thinking Knows Want Ideas Different Certain Individual Interesting Corruption Accidents Acquire Very Interesting Power Corruption

Author:David Morrissey

“If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support.”

Source: A treatise on political economy: or, The production, distribution and consumption of wealth