Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2014-05-16 May 16, 2014It is always from a minority acting in ways different from what the majority would prescribe that the majority in the end learns to do better.~ Friedrich August von HayekA free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.~ Henry Steele CommagerTo believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.~ Oscar Wilde May 15, 2014[U]nemployment is ... a side effect of the cure for inflation.~ Milton FriedmanWere we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.~ Thomas JeffersonYou can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.~ W. Somerset Maugham May 14, 2014Life is a banquet - and most poor suckers are starving.~ Auntie MameWithin seven centuries, [the ancient Greeks] invented for itself, epic, elegy, lyric, tragedy, novel, democratic government, political and economic science, history, geography, philosophy, physics and biology; and made revolutionary advances in architecture, sculpture, painting, music, oratory, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, anatomy, engineering, law and war... a stupendous feat for whose most brilliant state Attica was the size of Hertfordshire, with a free population (including children) of perhaps 160,000.~ F. J. LucasThe great appear great because we are on our knees: Let us rise.~ James Larkin May 13, 2014The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do.~ Eric HofferMany of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately coordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process in which the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.~ Friedrich August von HayekOrder is not pressure which is imposed on society from without but an equilibrium which is set up from within.~ José Ortega y Gasset May 12, 2014The opinion of ten thousand men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.~ Marcus AureliusIt is the part of wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.~ Miguel de CervantesIt's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.~ W. Somerset Maugham Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print