"If one individual, or one class, can call in the aid of authority to ward off the effects of competition, it acquires a privilege and at the cost of the whole community; it can make sure of profits not altogether due to the productive services rendered, but composed in part of an actual tax upon consumers for its private profit' which tax it commonly shares with the authority that thus unjustly lent its support."

-- Jean-Baptiste Say

#Philosophy Quotes #Class Quotes #Support Quotes

“It is curious that atheists have proved to be so intolerant of those who have a faith.”
“I made all my mistakes playing with people.”
“We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity, or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.”
“Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm.”

Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books
“I've read all the 'Game of Thrones' books many times over, so I sometimes find it easier being on set, because it can be hard to get out of character.”
“It is more important to keep the horse going hard than to always play the exact notes.”
“You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.”
“Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls.”

Source : Eva Ibbotson (2008). “The Secret Countess”, p.12, Pan Macmillan

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