“Whatever may be the immediate gains and losses, the dangers to our safety arising from political suppression are always greater than the dangers to that safety arising from political freedom. Suppression is always foolish. Freedom is always wise. That is the faith, the experimental faith, by which we Americans have undertaken to live.” MayPoliticalLossGreaterWiseAtheismDangerGainsSafetyFoolishSuppressionPolitical FreedomGains And Losses Author:Alexander Meiklejohn
“Without seeing any reason to believe that women are, on the average, so strong physically, intellectually, or morally, as men, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that many women are much better endowed in all these respects than many men, and I am at a loss to understand on what grounds of justice or public policy a career which is open to the weakest and most foolish of the male sex should be forcibly closed to women of vigor and capacity.” MenShouldBelieveReasonFactsEyeStrongSexWomenJusticeLossCareersSeeingPolicyCapacityMalesAverageEqualityFoolishVigorPublic Policy Author:Thomas Huxley
“The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.” FirstsChanceLossFoolishLoanSecond ChanceNo Second Chances Author:Charlie Munger
“How pointless life could be, what a foolish business of inventing things to love, just so you could dread losing them.” LossLosingFoolishDreadPointlessInventingInventing Things Book:Prodigal Summer Source: Prodigal Summer
“In the loss of skill, we lose stewardship; in losing stewardship we lose fellowship; we become outcasts from the great neighborhood of Creation. It is possible - as our experience in this good land shows - to exile ourselves from Creation, and to ally ourselves with the principle of destruction - which is, ultimately, the principle of nonentity. It is to be willing in general for being to not-be. And once we have allied ourselves with that principle, we are foolish to think that we can control the results. (pg. 303, The Gift of Good Land)” ThinkingShowsLosesLossResultsPrinciplesLandCreationWillingSkillsLosingDestructionFoolishNeighborhoodAlliesExileFellowshipStewardshipOutcastNonentity Author:Wendell Berry