"Wicksell's old-fashioned liberalism is reminiscent of John Maynard Keynes' attitude toward conscription during World War I. Keynes opposed conscription, but he was not a pacifist. He opposed conscription because it deprived the citizen of the right to decide for himself whether or not to join in the fight. Keynes was exempt as a civil servant from conscription; so there is no need to question his sincerity. Apparently his belief in the rights of the individual against a majority of his compatriots was very strong indeed."

Source : Mancur OLSON (2009). “The Logic of Collective Action”, p.90, Harvard University Press

Mancur Olson

#Strong Quotes #Attitude Quotes #War Quotes

“I still write in literary Arabic but I try to rid it of the rhetoric, the symbolism, and the stuff that ordinary people don't understand.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but Germany also lost both wars.”

Source : "The Tragedy of Great Power Politics". Book by John Mearsheimer, 2001.
“Never has the divide between the iPhone world and the politics world been so clear: I saw a bunch of people very well-served by their computers and telephones (very often Apple products) but undeniably shortchanged by our government-run cartel education system. And the tragedy for them - and for us - is that they will spend their energy trying to expand the sphere of the ineffective, hidebound, rent-seeking, unproductive political world, giving the . . .politicians. . .an even stronger whip hand over the Steve Jobses and Henry Fords - and we will be the poorer for it.”

Source : "A Jobs Agenda". www.nationalreview.com. October 5, 2011 Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279321.
“I'm an artist. There are a lot of people in the business who aren't. It's like they've got a shoe repair shop.”
“When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.”
“The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right”
“The Lord created you and me for the purpose of becoming Gods like himself.”

Source : Brigham Young (1992). “The Essential Brigham Young”
“Wisdom cannot be directly transmitted, and does not readily accumulate through the ages.”

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