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.Josiah Warren
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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.
Barbara Mikulski -
Societies are healthiest when their radius of trust is broad and when people feel they can influence their own fate.
James Fallows -
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.
James Fallows -
... 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.
Plato -
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.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The taxing power is especially something after which the reformer's finger always itches.
William Graham Sumner -
Middle-class societies don't emerge automatically as an economy matures, they have to be CREATED through political action.
Paul Krugman -
It would be foolish, in forming our expectations, to attach great weight to matters which are very uncertain.
John Maynard Keynes -
It is absolutely without contradiction that when women are encouraged to participate in the formal economies of their societies, the economy grows.
Hillary Clinton -
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.
Gertrude Atherton
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All societies are historical.
Raymond Queneau -
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.
Charles Issawi -
For societies are built as much on what people choose to forget as what they remember.
Nayantara Sahgal -
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.
Gail Porter -
The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.
Charlotte Kasl -
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.
Ernest Hemingway
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Silly what's his name, the Shrek, whoever he was on the television this morning?
Paul Keating -
I don't understand why people don't understand that the world of TV should look like the world outside of TV.
Shonda Rhimes -
The person who has earned love the least needs it the most.
F. Enzio Busche -
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.
William S. Burroughs -
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.
Josiah Warren