Josiah Warren Quotes
Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
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There was a whole group that really welcomed me: George Mitchell was one, Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd, the reformers were really delighted to see me. So if you were one of those squeaky clean, shiny bright, let's reform the world, you were very glad to see Barb Mikulski, and George Mitchell was in that category.
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Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
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Successful societies-those which progress economically and politically and can control the terms on which they deal with the outside world-succeed because they have found ways to match individual self-interest to the collective good.
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... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole.
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In all institutions from which the cold wind of open criticism is excluded, an innocent corruption begins to grow like a mushroom - for example, in senates and learned societies.
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Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
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Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
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The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
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Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.
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It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
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It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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All societies are historical.
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Most people do not go to the dentist until they have a toothache; most societies do not reform abuses until the victims begin to make life uncomfortable for others.
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For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
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My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.
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The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
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His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
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I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
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The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.
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The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.
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Those who have heard or read anything from me on the subject, know that one of the principal points insisted on is, the forming of societies or any other artificial combinations IS the first, greatest, and most fatal mistake ever committed by legislators and by reformers.
