"Abetted by misguided or co-opted intellectuals, the rulers weave a cloak of legitimacy to disguise their theft and hence to ease their extraction of wealth from the rightful owners."

-- Robert Higgs

#Ease Quotes #Wealth Quotes #Owners Quotes

“A man capable of torturing another human being, even if he's scum, feels something break in him, the most important thing that he has, his humanity, his soul if you want.”
“To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real.”
“Angels can fail because God allows them to make decisions and they are lesser beings than the perfect God. They can go astray, but the task is legitimate. God never tells they aren't allowed to instruct people - "just shut up and babysit them".”
“Is the very mechanism for the universe to come into being meaningless or unworkable or both unless the universe is guaranteed to produce life, consciousness and observership somewhere and for some little time in its history-to-be?”

Source : "Other Worlds". Book by Paul Davies, 1980.
“Get punctual, bring energy and creativity to your work, and stay with a project until it's completed (and then double-check the results). These habits will make you indispensable.”
“People naturally long for a bit of the wealth that is whorling all around them, and if the work and education available to them won't get them closer to the comforts that they see others enjoying, the temptation to take shortcuts can be fierce.”

Source : "The whorl of poverty". Interview with Elizabeth Taylor, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2012.
“Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.”
“With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down”

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