“Pollution and overuse of resources stem directly from the failure of government to defend private property. If property rights were to be defended adequately, we would find that here, as in other areas of our economy and society, private enterprise and modern technology would come not as a curse to mankind but as its salvation.” IfsGovernmentTechnologyEconomyRightsModernMankindResourcesAreasEconomicsSalvationPropertyCurseEnterprisePollutionStemPrivate PropertyProperty RightsPrivate EnterpriseModern Technology Author:Murray Rothbard
“In a world which furnishes so many employments which are useful, and so many which are amusing, it is our own fault if we ever know what ennui [boredom] is, or if we are ever driven to the miserable resource of gaming, which corrupts our dispositions, and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.” IfsKnowsWorldTeachMankindHabitResourcesFaultsDrivenEmploymentMiserableBoredomGamblingDispositionHostilityAmusingGamingEnnui Author:Thomas Jefferson
“On my 70th birthday, I was asked how I felt about mankind's prospects. This is my reply: We are behaving like yeasts in a brewer's vat, multiplying mindlessly while greedily consuming the substance of a finite world. If we continue to imitate the yeasts, we will perish as they perish, having exhausted our resources and poisoned ourselves in the lethal brew of our own wastes. Unlike the yeasts, we have a choice. What will it be?” IfsWorldChoicesFeltMankindWasteResourcesSubstanceExhaustedFiniteConsumingProspectsMultiplyingYeastBrewersVat Author:Farley Mowat
“We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not us to degrade other countries...I want the freedom of my country so that other countries may learn something from my free country so that the resources of my country might be utilized for the benefit of mankind.” WantMayCountryMightMankindBenefitsResourcesOur CountryExpensesOther CountriesExploitationDegradeFree Country Author:Lal Bahadur Shastri
“We believe no more in Bonaparte's fighting merely for the liberties of the seas than in Great Britain's fighting for the liberties of mankind. The object is the same, to draw to themselves the power, the wealth and the resources of other nations.” BelieveFightingNationsWealthLibertySeaMankindObjectsDrawsResourcesBritainGreat BritainBonaparte Book:The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816 Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1808-1816