“When we find ourselves wondering about the meaning of conditions and events, its always useful to ask, who profits?” AsksWonderSocietyConditionsEventsProfit Author:Richard Mitchell
“There is in the universe something for the description and analysis of which the natural sciences cannot contribute anything. There are events beyond the range of those events that the procedures of the natural sciences are fit to observe and describe. There is human action.” HumansActionUniverseNaturalSocietyEventsFitRangeAnalysisDescriptionProceduresNatural ScienceHuman Actions Book:The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method Source: The Ultimate Foundation of Economic Science: An Essay on Method
“The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.” HumansNaturalSocietyEventsFieldsBehaviorMethodHuman BehaviorNatural ScienceRegularity Author:Ludwig von Mises
“A singular fact about modern war is that it takes charge. Once begun it has to be carried to its conclusion, and carrying it there sets in motion events that may be beyond men's control. Doing what has to be done to win, men perform acts that alter the very soil in which society's roots are nourished.” MenMayWarDoneFactsWinningPeaceSocietyModernEventsRootsConclusionSoilModern War Book:The Civil War Source: The Civil War
“Things happen too quickly, crisis follows crisis, the soil of our minds is perpetually disturbed. Each of us, to relieve his feelings, broadcasts his own running commentary on the preposterous and bewildering events of the hour: and this, nowadays, is what passes for conversation.” MindFeelingsHappensRunningHoursSocietyEventsConversationCrisisThings HappenSoilDisturbedCommentary Book:Mrs. Miniver Source: Mrs. Miniver
“The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.” PoliticalPoliticsViolenceSocietyEventsRevolutionPoliticianConsequenceMadnessCrisisErasRebelliousTransAberrationAnomaliesAnomie Author:Jean Baudrillard