“I have no patience with this dreadful idea that whatever you have in you has to come out, that you can't suppress true talent. People can be destroyed; they can be bent, distorted, and completely crippled. In spite of all the poetry, all the philosophy to the contrary, we are not really masters of our fate.” PeopleIdeasPhilosophyFateTalentMastersContraryDestroyedSpiteBentCrippledNo PatienceI Have No Patience Author:Katherine Anne Porter
“The conclusions seem inescapable that in certain circles a tendency has arisen to fear people who fear government. Government, as the Father of Our Country put it so well, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. People who understand history, especially the history of government, do well to fear it. For a people to express openly their fear of those of us who are afraid of tyranny is alarming. Fear of the state is in no sense subversive. It is, to the contrary, the healthiest political philosophy for a free people.” PeopleWellsCountryStatesPhilosophySeemsGovernmentPoliticalCertainFatherDangerousMastersGunContraryCirclesTyrannyTendenciesConclusionOur CountryServantFearfulPolitical PhilosophySubversive Author:Jeff Cooper
“Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but in deeply moved agreement.” NeedsBookStatesPhilosophyWholeUnitedResultsOpinionPracticeUnited StatesEconomicDangerMovedInvestingContraryPracticalsAgreementApplicationProgrammesLead InDisillusionEnlargementRoad To Serfdom Author:John Maynard Keynes
“Violence, contrary to popular belief, is not part of the anarchist philosophy. It has repeatedly been pointed out by anarchist thinkers that the revolution can neither be won, nor the anarchist society established and maintained, by armed violence.” PhilosophyBeliefViolenceRevolutionContraryThinkerAnarchistContrary To Popular Belief Book:Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939 Source: Lessons of the Spanish Revolution, 1936-1939
“There is a bizarre notion according to which it is claimed that because men are corrupt, it is necessary to give certain of them all the more power... on the contrary, they must be given less power.” MenGivingPhilosophyPoliticalCertainGivenEconomicsNotionContraryBizarre Author:Benjamin Constant
“The philosophy of protectionism is a philosophy of war. The wars of our age are not at variance with popular economic doctrines; they are, on the contrary, the inescapable result of a consistent application of these doctrines.” WarPhilosophyAgeResultsEconomicContraryDoctrineConsistentApplicationVarianceProtectionism Author:Ludwig von Mises