“It is also true that the less possible it becomes for a man to acquire a new fortune, the more must the existing fortunes appear as privileges for which there is no justification. Policy is then certain to aim at taking these fortunes out of private hands, either by the slow process of heavy taxation of inheritance or by the quicker one of outright confiscation. A system based on private property and control of the means of production presupposes that such property and control can be acquired by any successful man.” MenMeanHandsCertainPoliticsProcessEconomySuccessfulPolicyAimPropertyFortunePrivilegeProductionsHeavyLiberalismAcquireJustificationTaxationInheritancePrivate PropertySuccessful Man Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“Normal science, the activity in which most scientists inevitably spend most all their time, is predicated on the assumption that the scientific community knows what the world is like. Normal science often suppresses fundamental novelties because they are necessarily subversive of its basic commitments.” KnowsWorldDoeFactsWisdomPoliticsCommunityEconomySuccessfulTheoryActivityNormalCommitmentScientistAimFundamentalsAssumptionLiberalismPuzzlesNoveltySubversive Author:Thomas Kuhn
“The dissolution of society bids fair to become the termination of a career of which property is the end and aim, because such a career contains the elements of self-destruction. Democracy in government, brotherhood in society, equality in rights and privileges, and universal education, foreshadow the next higher plane of society to which experience, intelligence and knowledge are steadily tending.” EndsSelfWisdomGovernmentNextPoliticsCareersEconomyDemocracyRightsHigherElementsFairsDestructionUniversalAimPropertyPrivilegePlanesLiberalismBrotherhoodSelf DestructionDissolutionTerminationRights And PrivilegesUniversal Education Book:The Indian Journals, 1859-62 Source: The Indian Journals, 1859-62
“Every community is an association of some kind and every community is established with a view to some good; for everyone always acts in order to obtain that which they think good. But, if all communities aim at some good, the state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.” IfsThinkingKindStatesPoliticalOrderPoliticsCommunityViewsGreaterSocietyDegreesHighestAimEmbraceAssociation Author:Aristotle
“A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind.” MenMindHumansPoliticalPoliticsSidesFailureAimMeetingsUniversityLimitationOur SocietyStationsCherishHuman MindBenign Author:Richard Hofstadter
“It may be that a second wave of the sexual revolution might at last accomplish its aim of freeing half the race from its immemorial subordination--and in the process bring us all a great deal closer to humanity. It may be that we shall even be able to retire sex from the harsh realities of politics, but not until we have created a world we can bear out of the desert we inhabit.” WorldMayRealityMightAbleLastsHumanityPoliticsSexProcessWomenDealsRaceHalfRevolutionBearsAimWaveAccomplishDesertSexismRetiringHarshSubordinationSexual RevolutionHarsh Reality Book:Sexual Politics Source: Sexual Politics
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” WholeGovernmentPoliticalPoliticsEnergyFreedomLibertyDemocracyEnvironmentSocietyCitizensAimSafetyThreatHistoricalSeriesClimate ChangeLibertarianPracticalsEndlessTyrannyIndividualismImaginaryThreatenedFreedom And LibertyFreedom LibertyProperty RightsMenacePeace WarLimited GovernmentDemocracies HaveLimiting GovernmentClamorLibertarian PartyLimited FreedomPolitical WillGreat LibertarianPolitical IssuesGovernment BureaucracyPrice Of FreedomLimiting FreedomSocial ControlCabalGovernment And PoliticsVoting Founding FathersMoney In Politics Book:Mencken Chrestomathy Source: Mencken Chrestomathy