"These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the teachings of our parents and are reducible to a simple maxim: Get a monopoly; let Society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax exemption is worth more than a Kim-berly or Comstock lode, since it does not require any labor, either mental or physical, for its exploitation."

-- Frederic C. Howe

#Teaching Quotes #Simple Quotes #Parent Quotes

“What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.”
“Twitter is a real addiction, like the color of it, the process of it.”
“If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.”
“I don't write poetry or short stories. I don't like to write articles usually. I tend to really only want to be focused on writing novels. It's one of the real advantages I've had over the years. I've only been good at one thing. It helps to be limited.”
“Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.”
“Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities.”
“Chris Anderson is a computer-fabricated artifact.”
“For men to be tied and led by authority, as it were with a kind of captivity of judgment, and though there be reason to the contrary not to listen unto it, but to follow like beasts the first in the herd, they know not, nor care not whither, this were brutish.”

Source : Richard Hooker, Izaak Walton (1839). “The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker: Containing Eight Books of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, and Several Other Treatises”, p.274

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