"Genuine rights donâ€™t conflictâ€”they enable us to live together without intractable conflicts."

-- Yaron Brook

#Rights Quotes #Together Quotes #Conflict Quotes

“Slavery remained in the Deep South by other names - in prison programs with charges over nothing and eternal debt that threatened every African-American in the South right up through World War II. And that was after killing three-quarters of a million people, destroying cities, and creating hostility that exists to this day over the the Confederate flag and the racism it symbolizes, all brewing out of bitterness over a war that didn't have to happen.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“The Bankers' New Clothes makes a simple, powerful argument: that banks need to raise more capital. It is entirely persuasive that the extent of their leverage makes the financial system fragile, and it clearly and patiently demolishes all the counter-arguments made by the banks and their lobbyists.”
“I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.”
“Inside my heart, there's a 12-year-old girl who has always wanted to be Ginger Rogers.”
“It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of it...then you wring its neck...it's only the chicken who does not find it quite so simple. Now you hold a knife at my throat, and a hostage for my obedience...You find it simple...I don't”

Source : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.69, Courier Corporation
“Contemporary philosophers have exercised themselves with the problem of our knowledge of other minds. Enmeshed in the dogma of the ghost in the machine, they have found it impossible to discover any logically satisfactory evidence warranting one person in believing that there exist minds other than his own. I can witness what your body does, but I cannot witness what your mind does, and my pretensions to infer from what your body does to what your mind does all collapse, since the premises for such inferences are either inadequate or unknowable.”
“I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange.”
“If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the consecration of Paris.”

You may also like:

Andrew Bernstein
Author
Ayn Rand
Novelist
Daniel Pipes
Historian
George Reisman
Economist
James K. Galbraith
Economist
Leonard Peikoff
Philosopher
Mark Skousen
Economist
Nathaniel Branden
Psychotherapist
Alex Epstein
American writer