"Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism."

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Source : "The Vita Activa". The New Yorker, October 18, 1958.

Mary McCarthy

#Liberty Quotes #Libertarian Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Economists often define their discipline as "the allocation of scarce resources among competing ends." But when resources or money really become scarce, economists call it a crisis and say that it's a question for politicians, not their own department.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.”
“Evolution is not controversial in the field of science. It's controversial in the public sphere because public education is highly politicized.”
“I might not win a Grammy or get another Stellar Award but I'll get my rewards from the Lord. There's nothing better than that.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“I never understood why the metal heads in my school hated the punks.”
“History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.”
“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon in the sense that it is and can be produced only by a more rapid increase in the quantity of money than in output. ... A steady rate of monetary growth at a moderate level can provide a framework under which a country can have little inflation and much growth. It will not produce perfect stability; it will not produce heaven on earth; but it can make an important contribution to a stable economic society.”
“In his garden every man may be his own artist without apology or explanation. Each within his green enclosure is a creator, and no two shall reach the same conclusion; nor shall we, any more than other creative workers, be ever wholly satisfied with our accomplishment. Ever a season ahead of us floats the vision of perfection and herein lies its perennial charm.”

Source : "Colour in My Garden".

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