"The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer to the poorer, as we imagined, than a redistribution of power from the individual to the State."

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Source : Baron Bertrand de Jouvenel, Bertrand De Jouvenel (2010). “The Ethics of Redistribution”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

Bertrand de Jouvenel

#Income Quotes #Matter Quotes #Individual Quotes

“The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.”
“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.”
“Our cause is a common one. It is war between poverty and wealth. ... This moneyed power is fast eating up the substance of the people. We have made war upon it, and we mean to win it. If we can, we will win through the ballot box; if not, then we shall resort to sterner means.”
“We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own ***** oil.”
“Never get so fascinated by the extraordinary that you forget the ordinary.”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood.”
“Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.”

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