"The military state is the final form to which every planned economy tends rapidly."

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Source : Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.269, Transaction Publishers

Isabel Paterson

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“You think that commanding an army grants you nobility? Nobility comes from fighting besides your soldiers, not kidnapping a woman to cheat your way out of battle.”
“Justin turned to give her one of his cool, unsmiling looks. Butterflies fluttered in her throat. She'd be very careful, Serena decided, as if she were walking through a minefield. "What are you thinking?" "About bombs," she answered blandly, "deadly camoflaged bombs." She gave him a quick,innocent grin. "Are we going to eat soon? I'm starving.”
“This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism.”
“actually, adv. Perhaps; possibly.”
“The educational resources provided by a child's fellow students are more important for his achievement than are the resources provided by the school board.”
“From Jefferson to Jackson to Lincoln to FDR to Reagan, every great president inspires enormous affection and enormous hostility. We'll all be much saner, I think, if we remember that history is full of surprises and things that seemed absolutely certain one day are often unimaginable the next.”
“We, as citizens or members of people's organisations, can preserve and nourish basic principles needed for long-term efforts aimed at transforming a totalitarian and war-torn society into a democratic one.”

Source : Katarina Kruhonja's Right Livelihood Award Acceptance Speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 1998.
“When you're young, you're very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.”

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