sotransparency

[sotransparency]

A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.

John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) English philosopher   (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may [in principle] have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Robert Higgs (1944-) American economic historian.   (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

Envy is more irreconcilable than hate. It is the most corroding of all political vices

Hans Sennholtz (1922-2007) German-American economist. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

Constitutions have to be written on hearts, not just paper.

Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013)  British Prime Minister. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

I favor the policy of [free] economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people.

Calvin Coolidge  (1872-1933) U.S. president  (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Daniel Webster (1782-1852)  American attorney and statesman. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

Freedom means choosing your burden.

Hephzibah Menuhin (1920-1981) Australian -American pianist. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

The envious are more likely to be mollified by seeing others deprived of some advantage than by gaining it for themselves. It is not what they lack that chiefly troubles them, but what others have.

Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993) American economic journalist (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

[sotransparency]

Che Guevara: A Birthday NOT Worth Celebrating

Che Guevara, the man who played a vital role in setting up the machinery of political repression and economic stagnation in Cuba, was born 90 years ago today. That is one birthday not worth celebrating.

The 100 million victims of communism — and the 214 directly attributed to Che himself — deserve better.

[sotransparency]

A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

Frederick Douglass, Speech November 1867 (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

People who talk incessantly about “change” are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people.

Thomas Sowell (1931-) American economist. (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

[sotransparency]

The much abused shopkeepers have abolished slavery and serfdom, made woman the companion of man with equal rights, proclaimed equality before the law and freedom of thought and opinion, declared war on war, abolished torture, and mitigated the cruelty of punishment. What cultural force can boast of similar achievements?

Ludwig Von Mises (1881-1973) Austrian economist (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

You can’t know too much, but you can say too much.

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) U.S. President (via philosophicalconservatism)

[sotransparency]

Perverse Quotations

“I have learned a great deal from Marxism as I do not hesitate to admit…The difference between them and myself is that I have really put into practice what these peddlers and pen-pushers have timidly begun. The whole of National Socialism is based on it. Look at the workers’ sports clubs, the industrial cells, the mass demonstrations, the propaganda leaflets written specially for the comprehension of masses; all these new methods of political struggle are essentially Marxist in origin. ”

-Adolph Hitler