Society and the World

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

One can’t prove that God doesn’t exist, but science makes God unnecessary.

Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

Men forget but never forgive. Women forgive but never forget.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a ‘dismal science.’ But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance.

For it is in giving that we receive.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature.

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

The cause of freedom, of the defense of man’s conscience, is indivisible. By defending it in one country, we defend it everywhere in the world.

We haven’t got too much time left to ensure that government of the earth, by the earth, for the earth, shall not perish from the people.

We haven’t got too much time left to ensure that government of the earth, by the earth, for the earth, shall not perish from the people.

There are those who will say that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is the American dream.

 

There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it?