"Today the Internal Revenue Code constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. A flat tax would be an enormous step forward."

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Arlen Specter

#Punishment Quotes #Would Be Quotes #Today Quotes

“The free enterprise concept inherent in the economic model of capitalism should mean common people, or lower and middle class wage-earners, have greater potential to rise up and gain financial independence. In reality, however, free enterprise all too often leads to an almost total lack of government regulation that in turn allows the global elite to run amuck in Gordon Gecko-style financial coups.”
“Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial.”
“Weâ€™re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that Iâ€™ve had to work harder than most.”
“Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting”
“For the fundamental fact of human psychology is that society, instead of remaining almost entirely inside the individual organism as in the case of animals prompted by their instincts, becomes crystallized almost entirely outside the individuals. In other words, social rules, as Durkheim has so powerfully shown, whether they be linguistic, moral, religious, or legal, etc., cannot be constituted, transmitted or preserved by means of an internal biological heredity, but only through the external pressure exercised by individuals upon each other.”
“In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.”
“... on the whole we have just as much orange left and it tastes far better, if we give a good deal of it away.”

Source : Margaret Warde (1906). “Betty Wales, Freshman: A Story for Girls”
“When I look at American history and I look at what history means to me, I look at it as if it were a string of stories. And if it's told well enough and in a way that's charming and warm and with wit and humor, then it takes a bit of the edge off of it. You can still tell the truth, but if you tell it very sweetly and very warmly, it makes it go down a bit easier.”

Source : Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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