Israel Kirzner famous quotes

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  • Indulgence in animal killing for the taste of the tongue is the grossest kind of ignorance

  • The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may be a flight from confronting the scared--this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

  • Ignorance of the law excuses no man from practicing it.

  • On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

  • Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

  • I'd like a relationship that was like two tree trunks side by side, strong but independent.

  • Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

  • Getting adjusted regularly is part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

  • The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.

  • We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had not failed and then the warriors could have achieved their goals.