"The change began with John Stuart Mill and the Utopians . When Mill pointed out that economics had no ultimate solution to the problem of distribution , that society might do with the fruits of its toil as it saw fit, he introduced into the mechanical calculus of the market a conflicting calculus of moral judgment."

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Source : "The Worldly Philosophers". Book by Robert Heilbroner, Chapter XI, Beyond the Economic Revolution, p. 307, 1953.

Robert Heilbroner

#Toil Quotes #Might Quotes #Saws Quotes

“Always now - just now - come into being. Always now - just now - give yourself to death. Practicing this is Zen practice.”

Source : Soko Morinaga, Belenda Attaway Yamakawa (2002). “Novice to Master: An Ongoing Lesson in the Extent of My Own Stupidity”, p.149, Simon and Schuster
“I definitely believe in plastic surgery. I don't want to be an old hag. There's no fun in that.”
“Life holds one great but quite commonplace mystery. Though shared by each of us and known to all, seldom rates a second thought. That mystery, which most of us take for granted and never think twice about, is time.”
“No one needs a first edition. Whoever wrote it; even if it was Moses.”
“I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.”
“I think being an atheist is something you are, not something you do.”
“Lenin could listen so intently that he exhausted the speaker.”
“[To the bishop who suggested the widowed queen now consider herself 'as married to Christ':] That's what I call twaddle!”

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