Thomas Nixon Carver famous quotes

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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.
-- Thomas Nixon Carver

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People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both of whom repudiated the traditional standards of political behaviour. Both preached Utopia, Heaven on Earth. It was the moment of birth for our contemporary world.
Anyone with a gun can go out and commit an act of terrorism, even without a political affiliation.
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease.
He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
For children preserve the fame of a man after his death.
Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.
In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.
Deep inside you know / when trouble comes / and there's no one else to turn to / you can call on each other / and count on each other ... / because each other / is all you have.

Thomas Nixon Carver famous quotes

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