“The idea that full employment without property ownership will solve the world's problems is utter nonsense. The Keynesian concept that the function of capital is merely to amplify labor, not independently produce wealth is simply blindness.” WorldIdeasProblemWisdomPoliticsWealthEconomyProduceConceptsLaborFunctionPropertySolveEmploymentLiberalismNonsenseOwnershipBlindnessAmplifyProperty Ownership Author:Louis O. Kelso
“All this care for the world, we must believe, is taken by the Gods without any act of will or labor. As bodies which possess some power produce their effects by merely existing: e.g. the sun gives light and heat by merely existing; so, and far more so, the providence of the Gods acts without effort to itself and for the good of the objects of its forethought. This solves the problems of the Epicureans , who argue that what is divine neither has trouble itself nor gives trouble to others.” WorldGivingBelieveProblemBodyLightCareEffortSunTakenTroubleEffectsObjectsProduceDivineLaborSolveArguingHeatProvidenceForethoughtEpicureanMerely Existing Author:Sallust
“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.” IfsWorldTryingProblemSeemsHappensViolencePossibilityProduceSolveRevengeStrikesVulnerabilityInjuryTransfersLikelihoodStrike Back Author:Judith Butler
“It is a common experience that attempts to solve just one piece of a problem first, then others, and so on, lead to endless involutions. You no sooner solve one aspect of a thing, than another point is out of point. And when you correct that one, something else goes wrong. You go round and round in circles, unable to produce a form that is thoroughly right.” FirstsProblemFormCommonPiecesProduceAspectRoundsSolveCirclesEndlessJust OneOne PieceCommon Experience Author:Christopher Alexander
“Ted Cruz said he wanted to find a compromise. Ted Cruz said he wanted to bring 11 million people out of the shadows. Ted Cruz said that he wanted immigration reform to pass. Here's the bottom line. I tried to solve a very difficult issue, and we tried to produce the best and most conservative bill possible in a Senate controlled by Harry Reid at the time, and then send it over to the House and have them, conservatives, make it even better.” PeopleSaidWantedHouseDifficultLinesMillionsIssuesProduceShadowBillsBottomConservativeSolveImmigrationCompromiseReformControlledSenateBottom LineCruzImmigration Reform Author:Marco Rubio
“We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.” NeedsProblemPoliticalUnderstandingClassGreaterGroupsProduceSolutionsSolveRefugeeNew Class Author:Judith Butler