"Monopoly and privilege must be destroyed, opportunity afforded, and competition encouraged. This is Liberty's work, and Down with Authority her war-cry."

-- Benjamin Tucker

#War Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Competition Quotes

“Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king; Then blooms each thing, then maids dance in a ring, Cold doth not sting, the pretty birds do sing. Cuckoo, jug-jug, pu-we, to-witta-woo!”

Source : 'Summer's Last Will and Testament' (1600) Song
“The sacrifice of Diogenes to all the gods.”
“I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats.”
“It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.”

Source : Sarah Louise Delany, Annie Elizabeth Delany, Amy Hill Hearth (1993). “Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years”, p.129, Kodansha America
“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”
“Men praise poverty, as the African worships Mumbo Jumbo--from terror of the malign power, and a desire to propitiate at.”
“I admired the earnestness of these people, many of whom had joined Greenpeace and marched for noble things in their youth. But I didnâ€™t share their hatred of the establishment. After all, the establishment had given me so many of my favorite things: Nick at Nite, the New York Knicks, Stephen King, Taco Bell, Green Day. The list went on and on.”
“A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.”

Source : Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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