var quotes=new Array() quotes[0]='There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.
Douglas Everett' quotes[1]='Humanity is no longer imaginable without science. But no more is science possible without some religion to animate it.... It is the complete failure of the social-democratic state to solve the problem of its defense which threatens to surpress all its other virtues and to transform it into something different -- a militarized garrison state -- or to overthrow it altogether. The final conclusion, therefore, is that organizations are here to stay, and though the only solution to many of the problems which they raise seems to be ever more and larger organizations, yet there is no substitute for the Word of God -- the sharp sword of truth in the prophetic individual, the penetrating moral insight that cuts through the shows and excuses of even the best organized society.
Kenneth Boulding' quotes[2]='The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribler of a few years back.
John Maynard Keynes' quotes[3]='Analytic work begins with our vision of things, and this vision is ideological almost by definition. It embodies the picture of things as we see them, and wherever there is any possible motive to see them in a given rather another light, the way in which we wish to see things can hardly be distinguished from the way we wish to see them.
Joseph Schumpeter' quotes[4]='Capitalism has been as unmistakable a success as socialism has been a failure.... Here is the part that is hard [for socialists] to swallow. It has been the Friedmans, Hayeks, von Miseses who have maintained that capitalism would flourish and that socialism would develop incurable ailments. All three have regarded capitalism as the natural system of free men; all have maintained that left to its own devices capitalism would achieve material growth more succcessfully than any other system. From this admittedly impressionistic and incomplete sampling I draw the following discomforting generalization: The farther to the right one looks, the more prescient has been the historical foresight; the farther to the left, the less so.
Robert Heilbronner' quotes[5]='The United States was the first moral society in history. All previous systems had regarded man as a sacrificial means to the ends of others, and society as an end in itself. The United States regarded man as an end in himself, and society as a means to the peaceful, orderly, voluntary coexistence of individuals. All previous systems had held that man\'s life belongs to society, that society can dispose of him in any way it pleases, and that any freedom he enjoys is his only by favor, by the permission of society, which may be revoked at any time. The United States held that man\'s life is his by right (which means: by moral principle and by his nature), that a right is the property of an individual, that society as such has no rights, and that the only moral purpose of a government is the protection of individual rights.
Ayn Rand' quotes[6]='So you think that money is the root of all evil? Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can\'t exist unless there are goods produced and men able to produce them. Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil? When you accept money in payment for your effort, you do so only on the conviction that you will exchange it for the product of the effort of others. It is not the moochers or the looters who give value to money. Not an ocean of tears nor all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow. Those pieces of paper, which should have been gold, are a token of honor your claim upon the energy of the men who produce... Is this what you consider evil?
Francisco d Anconia'; quotes[7]='Fundamentally, there are only two ways of co-ordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use of coercion -- the technique of the army and the modern totalitarian state. The other is voluntary co-operation of individuals -- the technique of the market place. Indeed, a major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it does this task so well. It gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman' quotes[8]='Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: "I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles.
Walter Lippmann' quotes[9]='And my happiness needs no higher aim to vindicate it. My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds. I am not a sacrifice on their altars. I am a man. This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before! I do not surrender my treasures, nor do I share them. The fortune of my spirit is not to be blown into coins of brass and flung to the winds as alms for the poor of the spirit. I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom. And the greatest of these is freedom. I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I covet no man\'s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet. I am neither foe nor friend to my brothers, but such as each of them shall deserve of me. And to earn my love, my brothers must do more than to have been born. I do not grant my love without reason, nor to any chance passer-by who may wish to claim it. I honor men with my love. But honor is a thing to be earned.
Equality7-2123' quotes[10]='Electric lighting is no great boon to anyone who has money enough to buy a sufficient number of candles and to pay servants to attend them.... The capitalist achievement does not typically consist of providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within the reach of factory girls in return for steadily decreasing amounts of effort.
-Joseph Schumpeter' quotes[11]='Today, few people know what capitalism is, how it works and what was its actual history. When I say "capitalism," I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. A pure system of capitalism has never yet existed, not even in America; various degrees of government control had been undercutting and distorting it from the start. Capitalism is not the system of the past; it is the system of the future if mankind is to have a future.
Ayn Rand' quotes[12]='I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone\'s right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy. Nor to any achievement of mine. No matter who makes the claim, how large their number or how great their need. I wished to come here and say that I am a man who does not exist for others. It had to be said. The world is perishing from an orgy of self-sacrificing. I wished to come here and say that the integrity of a man\'s creative work is of greater importance than any charitable endeavor. Those of you who do not understand this are the men who\'re destroying the world. I wished to come here and state my terms. I do not care to exist on any others.
Howard Roark' quotes[13]='Intellectuals are in fact people who wield the power of the spoken and the written word, and one of the touches that distinguish them from other people who do the same is the absence of direct responsibility for practical affairs... The profession of the unprofessional? Professional dilettantism? The people who talk about everything because they understand nothing.... But if the monastery gave birth to the intellectual of the medieval world, it was capitalism that let him lose and presented him with the printing press....
Joseph Schumpeter' quotes[14]='Through centuries of scourges and disasters, brought about by your code of morality, you have cried that your code had been broken, that the scourges were punishment for breaking it, that men were too weak and too selfish to spill all the blood it required. You damned man, you damned existence, you damned this earth, but never dared to question your code .... You went on crying that your code was noble, but human nature was not good enough to practice it. And no one rose to ask the question: Good? by what standard?
John Galt'; quotes[15]='I believe that many people who love to be in love actually love the *process* of falling in love. New beginnings via entreprenuership is an exciting time because in Stage One of the production function there still remains considerable managerial challenge. In the short-run, whatever that is, diminishing returns will eventually kick in as the total utility of "togetherness" subsides. This is not irrational, quite the contrary, essentially I think you have merely "revealed" your preferences for being "involved" rather than overly risk adverse, bitter, or cowardly.
Mark Frost' quotes[16]='A unit of money (ie:the dollar) is a powerful tool. It has many uses, one of which is an indicator of value. We can see what a person values by what they do with their money (ie: Madonna vs the children) and we can also see what governments value by what they do with their money. In a broad statement, capitalism allows her people the right to do with their money what they will.
Jeana Torrianni' quotes[17]='Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist\'s metaphysical value-judgments. An artist recreates those aspects of reality which represent his fundamental view of man and of existence. In forming a view of man\'s nature, a fundamental question one must answer is whether man possesses the faculty of volition because one\'s conclusions and evaluations in regard to all the characteristics, requirements and actions of man depend on the answer.
Ayn Rand' quotes[18]='One argument made by many economists, including myself, is that the free market really does work. The problem is there are so many people out there who think themselves quite "conservative", yet are in reality, just another breed of interventionists; not really true believers in the efficacy of market outcomes, but rather "rent-seekers" constantly in search of government provided privilege. This is my problem with the Republicans.
-Mark Frost' quotes[19]='7 of 9 is a woman whose mind is in obvious "social chaos", yet as I contemplate the totality of her character, it is clear that her borg-conditioned data set is full of heteroskedastic interpretations of the causation of seemingly stochastic human behavior. This is related to her breasts due to the nature of Borg assimilation which, at least in theory, endeavors to make perfect that which is imperfect; or at least efficient that which is inefficient. Being that she literally matured within the Collective, it is clear that her body would not be left to the stochastic individuality of her human genes, but rather a Borg interpretation of efficiency and perfection.
Mark Frost' quotes[20]='Sometimes, when I feel soooo depressed, I just think about you and all the things that you have done for me. You always make me smile and laugh and grin and "crazy" :-) Your love keeps me going. You mean sooooo much to me. You are my "asset". Life is so funny sometimes. It always makes us smile and happy at one time and sad and angry at the other time. I think it is the way of God saying "People always need a reminder that I am still in charge of their life" Because they tend to forget Me when they are happy. Or is it because sadness makes happiness more meaningful? Whatever it is, I will always love you......and you are much...much ...much more than my own life.
Jenie Adisesha' quotes[21]='The rapid growth of the information age has made it difficult for educational institutions to adapt to the new demands which they face. Traditional structures within the university environment have had difficulty in incorporating new technology and adapting the educational process. The result has been a perpetuation of people who are educated under traditional means with limited exposure to technology. This has the effect of creating a segment of society which is unprepared for a rapidly changing, technology driven job market.
Matt Ramseyer' quotes[22]='Schumpeter emphatically argued that Keynesian economics would drive the last nail into the coffin of capitalism as we know it; and in the end, as the so called government controlled macro-economy became dominate, could very well open the door to tyranny. If an inheritance is to be passed onto posterity, it would be wise to take heed of what Schumpeter saw and warned of over 50 years ago! He has bequeathed two visions to either fear or anticipate, depending on ones persuasion; a world of capitalism, or a world socialism. One will be chosen. It is not so much a question of which choice to make, but rather, who will do the choosing. Both radicals and conservatives are now beginning to admit this!
Mark Frost' quotes[23]='Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.
Irving Goffman' quotes[24]='If government assumes tasks which are too extensive and complex to be effectively guided by majority decisions, it seems inevitable that effective powers will devolve into a bureaucratic apparatus increasingly independent of democratic control. It is therefore not unlikely that the abandonment of liberalism by democracy will in the long run also lead to the disappearance of democracy.
F.A. Hayek' quotes[25]='Bureaucratology requires that a bureau, when it has failed to carry out the mission assigned to it, blame its failure on "special factors" over which it alleges it has no control and then petition the appropriate legislature for enough additional powers to handle all such special factors that might appear in the future.
Richard Timberlake' quotes[26]='Politicians can, as they so often do, ascribe value to the irrational and all we economists are ever permitted to say is that these values certainly cost something. EMU is doomed to failure and its cost will be economic depression, social strife, and possibly even war among regional combatants. Markets require strong political institutions with teeth to function, and monetary union without reasonably strong political union has no teeth.
Mark Frost' quotes[27]='The social security program is one of those things on which the tyranny of the status quo is beginning to work its magic. Despite the controversy that surrounded its inception, it has come to be taken for granted that its desirability is hardly questioned any longer. Yet it involves a large-scale invasion into the personal lives of a large fraction of the nation without, so far as I can see, any justification that is at all persuasive, not only on liberal principles, but on almost any other.
Milton Friedman' quotes[28]='I think women are always criticized for that. I want it to be irritiating. I want to show that struggle because that is like womens lives: trying to constantly multitask as I have. I am a single mother, an artist, and I book myself completely. Yet to be successful I have to engage in a male, linear struggle which is kind of foreign to my feminine way. I like to feel and be instinctive.
Karen Finley' quotes[29]='The war on drugs was lost before it ever began because, like in Vietnam, the costs of victory are too high requiring a political will greater than the public is willing to pay. In such situations, military involvement merely serves to compound our losses. Unfortunately, these losses are not only measured in dollars expended, but also in the opportunity costs of broken lives, domestic strife, and strained political relations.
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