Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [21-40] of 58 Altruist quotesAltruist QuotesAltruist Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes People who make careers out of helping others -- sometimes at great sacrifice, often not -- usually don't like to hear that those others might get along fine, might even get along better, without their help.~ John Holt A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues…is on the way to totalitarianism and death.~ Robert M. Hutchins Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.~ Aldous Huxley It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.~ Molly Ivins All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.~ Dr. Samuel Johnson You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion.~ Garrison Keillor The inhabitant of London could order by telephone, sipping his morning tea in bed, the various products of the whole earth -- he could at the same time and by the same means adventure his wealth in the natural resources and new enterprise of any quarter of the world -- he could secure forthwith, if he wished, cheap and comfortable means of transit to any country or climate without passport or other formality.~ John Maynard Keynes I was put in this world to change it.~ Kathe Kollwitz Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.~ Prince Peter Kropotkin The road to hell is paved with good intentions.~ Late 16th Century Proverb It is the tragic story of the cultural crusader in a mass society that he cannot win, but that we would be lost without him.~ Paul F. Lazarsfeld Political correctness is the natural continuum from the party line. What we are seeing once again is a self-appointed group of vigilantes imposing their views on others.~ Doris Lessing It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong - throughout the world. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time...~ Abraham Lincoln People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men.~ H. L. Mencken The most awful tyranny is that of the proximate utopia where the last sins are currently being eliminated and where, tomorrow, there will be no sins because all the sinners have been wiped out.~ Thomas Merton When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered, and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty obtained that wise men look for.~ John Milton It is madness beyond compare To try to reform the world.~ Molière Utopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder.~ Thomas Molnar Uniformity, therefore, is an essential built-in element of utopian existence, and it is no less important that this uniformity remain permanent.~ Thomas Molnar If the political-correctness fascists get their way, we can safely assume it will be correct-thinking, “political cleansing” squads deciding what we can or cannot say on the Intenet. These people fear public debate and demand homogenization of “acceptable” attitudes compatible with their emotional, utopian idealism.~ Charles W. Moore Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print