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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9bc52d6 | Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon. | inflation monetary-policy | Milton Friedman | |
| a392f93 | Although these examples only scratch the surface, they illustrate the fundamental proposition that freedom is one whole, that anything that reduces freedom in one part of our lives is likely to affect freedom in the other parts. | Milton Friedman | ||
| f6c0437 | None of this means that government does not have a very real function. Indeed, the tragedy is that because government is doing so many things it ought not to be doing, it performs the functions it ought to be performing badly. The basic functions of government are to defend the nation against foreign enemies, to prevent coercion of some individuals by others within the country, to provide a means of deciding on our rules, and to adjudicate .. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 15441fc | The family, rather than the individual, has always been and remains today the basic building block of our society, though its hold has clearly been weakening--one of the most unfortunate consequences of the growth of government paternalism. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 106351d | I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history. I was reminded of some famous lines of Robert Frost: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both I took the one less travled by, And that has made all the difference. | Milton Friedman | ||
| 81134e8 | Only people have incomes and they derive them through the market from the resources they own, whether these be in the form of corporate stock, or of bonds, or of land, or of their personal capacity. | Milton Friedman | ||
| e4d3fe6 | Sometime during the 1960s, the Nobel laureate economist Milton Friedman was consulting with the government of a developing Asian nation. Friedman was taken to a large-scale public works project, where he was surprised to see large numbers of workers wielding shovels, but very few bulldozers, tractors, or other heavy earth-moving equipment. When asked about this, the government official in charge explained that the project was intended as a .. | Martin Ford | ||
| 33fe640 | The role of government just considered is to do something that the market cannot do for itself, namely, to determine, arbitrate, and enforce the rules of the game. | Milton Friedman | ||
| d30a51a | The Saint is a medicine because he is an antidote. Indeed that is why the saint is often a martyr; he is mistaken for a poison because he is an antidote. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d3bae20 | There is nothing to unify God and the soul but the Cross. | cross saints st-thomas-aquinas | Louis de Wohl | |
| a1bac6b | Like any other science, yoga is applicable by people of every clime and time. The theory advanced by certain ignorant writers that yoga is "dangerous" or "unsuitable" for Westerners is wholly false, and has lamentably deterred many sincere students from seeking its manifold blessings. Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevents all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nat.. | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| 4b4bf72 | No busques valores absolutos en el mundo relativo de la naturaleza | Paramahansa Yogananda | ||
| e1ccd09 | The modern evil, we have said, greatly turns on this: that people do not see that the exception proves the rule. Thus it may or may not be right to kill a murderer; but it can only conceivably be right to kill a murderer because it is wrong to kill a man. | murder | G.K. Chesterton | |
| f445154 | The Christian optimism is based on the fact that we do not fit in to the world. | optimism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| ae9115e | Strengthen your mind and refuse to carry the burden of mental and moral weaknesses acquired in past years; burn them in the fires of your present divine resolutions and right activities. By this constructive attitude you will attain freedom," said Paramahansa Yogananda." | Rod Stryker | ||
| fb1bc85 | The initiative to undertake your most important duty in life is often buried beneath the accumulated debris of human habits. | self-help | Paramahansa Yogananda | |
| 67c358d | There was one special thing you promised me at the beginning of the affair, and which you have certainly given me by the end of it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b54023b | Cooking is an art; it has in it personality, and even perversity, for the definition of an art is that which must be personal and may be perverse. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6b2250a | To begin with, we must protest against a habit of quoting and paraphrasing at the same time. When a man is discussing what Jesus meant, let him state first of all what He said, not what the man thinks He would have said if he had expressed Himself more clearly. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 8293e3b | Now here comes in the whole collapse and huge blunder of our age. We have mixed up two different things, two opposite things. Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to suit the vision. Progress does mean (just now) that we are always changing the vision. It should mean that we are slow but sure in bringing justice and mercy among men: it does mean that we are very swift in doubting the desirability of justice and mercy: .. | morality progress relativism | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 51e9c49 | And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages? Might as well talk about prudent suicides. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 03564f2 | And it did certainly appear that the prophets had put the people (engaged in the old game of Cheat the Prophet) in a quite unprecedented difficulty. It seemed really hard to do anything without fulfilling some of their prophecies. But there was, nevertheless, in the eyes of labourers in the streets, of peasants in the fields, of sailors and children, and especially women, a strange look that kept the wise men in a perfect fever of doubt. Th.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 41205fb | The way to build a church is not to pay for it, certainly not with somebody else's money. The way to build a church is not even to pay for it with your own money. The way to build a church is to build it. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 1d08f32 | I hold it clear, therefore, if anything is clear about the business, that the Eugenists do not merely mean that the mass of common men should settle each other's marriages between them; the question remains, therefore, whom they do instinctively trust when they say that this or that ought to be done. What is this flying and evanescent authority that vanishes wherever we seek to fix it? Who is the man who is the lost subject that governs the.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b264c1c | It is cold anarchy to say that all men are to meddle in all men's marriages. It is cold anarchy to say that any doctor may seize and segregate anyone he likes. But it is not anarchy to say that a few great hygienists might enclose or limit the life of all citizens, | eugenics tyranny | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 567fa64 | Nothing, again, could be more prosaic and impenetrable than the domestic energies of Miss Diana Duke. But Innocent had somehow blundered on the discovery that her thrifty dressmaking went with a considerable feminine care for dress--the one feminine thing that had never failed her solitary self-respect. In consequence Smith pestered her with a theory (which he really seemed to take seriously) that ladies might combine economy with magnifice.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| b1a3fb6 | Eugenics, as discussed, evidently means the control of some men | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2c994c4 | The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d243a12 | I have known some people of very modern views driven by their distress to the use of theological terms to which they attached no doctrinal significance, merely because a drawer was jammed tight and they could not pull it out. | swearing | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 067dbd6 | People, if you have any prayers, Say prayers for me: And lay me under a Christian stone In that lost land I thought my own, To wait till the holy horn is blown, And all poor men are free. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| ac39750 | Then the man smiled, and his smile was a shock, for it was all on one side, going up in the right cheek and down in the left. There was nothing, rationally speaking, to scare anyone about this. Many people have this nervous trick of a crooked smile, and in many it is even attractive. But in all Syme's circumstances, with the dark dawn and the deadly errand and the loneliness on the great dripping stones, there was something unnerving in it... | nightmare smile | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 5d7b2fc | But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug. | society | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 4f5e9ec | He had thought at first that they were all of common stature and costume, with the evident exception of the hairy Gogol. But as he looked at the others, he began to see in each of them exactly what he had seen in the man by the river, a demoniac detail somewhere. That lop-sided laugh, which would suddenly disfigure the fine face of his original guide, was typical of all these types. Each man had something about him, perceived perhaps at the.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| a4d5893 | Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most perfect place for talking on earth--the top of a tolerably deserted tramcar. To talk on the top of a hill is superb, but to talk on the top of a flying hill is a fairy tale. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 2124f5c | He spoke in that sweet and steely voice which he reserved for great occasions and practiced for hours together in his bedroom. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 6b7666f | I believe firmly in the value of all vulgar notions, especially of vulgar jokes. When once you have got hold of a vulgar joke, you may be certain that you have got hold of a subtle and spiritual idea. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 931f8dd | It was like the face of some ancient archangel, judging justly after heroic wars. There was laughter in the eyes, and in the mouth honour and sorrow. There was the same white hair, the same great, grey-clad shoulders that I had seen from behind. But when I saw him from behind I was certain he was an animal, and when I saw him in front I knew he was a god. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 777a67e | Allied to this question is the kindred question on which we so often hear an innocent British boast--the fact that our statesmen are privately on very friendly relations, although in Parliament they sit on opposite sides of the House. Here, again, it is as well to have no illusions. Our statesmen are not monsters of mystical generosity or insane logic, who are really able to hate a man from three to twelve and to love him from twelve to thr.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d4f1503 | But though the essential of the woman's task is universality, this does not, of course, prevent her from having one or two severe though largely wholesome prejudices. She has, on the whole, been more conscious than man that she is only one half of humanity; but she has expressed it (if one may say so of lady) by getting her teeth into the two or three things which she thinks she stands for. I would observe here in parenthesis that much of t.. | G. K. Chesterton | ||
| 8cc72fc | What again could this astonishing thing be like which people were so anxious to contradict, that in doing so they did not mind contradicting themselves? | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| d96c6ff | But the whole modern world, or at any rate the whole modern Press, has a perpetual and consuming terror of plain morals. Men always attempt to avoid condemning a thing upon merely moral grounds...Why on earth do the newspapers, in describing a dynamite outrage or any other political assassination, call it a "dastardly outrage" or a cowardly outrage? It is perfectly evident that it is not dastardly in the least. It is perfectly evident that .. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 616d373 | I do not admit that theological points are small points. Theology is only thought applied to religion; and those who prefer a thoughtless religion need not be so very disdainful of others with a more rationalistic taste. The old joke that the Greek sects only differed about a single letter is about the lamest and most illogical joke in the world. An atheist and a theist only differ by a single letter; yet theologians are so subtle as to dis.. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 7e43d26 | The devil takes us to the top of an exceeding high mountain and makes us dizzy; but God lets us look at the mountain. | G.K. Chesterton | ||
| 320c166 | I do not say that there are no stronger men than these; but will any one say that there are any men stronger than those men of old who were dominated by their philosophy and steeped in their religion? Whether bondage be better than freedom may be discussed. But that their bondage came to more than our freedom it will be difficult for any one to deny. | G.K. Chesterton |