"Few new truths have ever won their way against the resistance of established ideas save by being overstated."

-- Isaiah Berlin

#Ideas Quotes #Way Quotes #Resistance Quotes

“Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.”
“No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.”

Source : Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute
“Don't bullshit' just play.”
“People should like poetry the way a child likes snow, and they would if poets wrote it.”
“I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.”
“It never hurts to be involved in any political or activist organization. I can never see how participation would be a bad thing. The key is being true to what you participate with and who.”
“Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.”
“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”

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