Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2023-07-31 Jul 31, 2023Liberty's view of the government could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it works, work with it. If it doesn't, work against it. If it works you over, abolish it.~ Angel ShamayaThe greatest danger to liberty today comes from the men who are most needed and most powerful in modern government, namely, the efficient expert administrators exclusively concerned with what they regard as the public good.~ Friedrich August von HayekThe worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.~ John Stuart Mill Jul 28, 2023Integrity has no need of rules.~ Albert CamusOh, judge, your damn laws: the good people don't need them and the bad people don't follow them so what good are they?~ Ammon HennacyWhat is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Jul 27, 2023The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.~ Arnold J. ToynbeeHe alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.~ Baruch SpinozaUtopians...consider individual freedom as the stumbling block on which the grandiose idea of mankind’s totalization may flounder.~ Thomas Molnar Jul 26, 2023It is interesting to observe that in the year 1935 the average individual's incurious attitude towards the phenomenon of the State is precisely what his attitude was toward the phenomenon of the Church in the year, say, 1500. ... it does not appear to have occurred to the Church-citizen of that day, any more than it occurs to the State-citizen of the present, to ask what sort of institution it was that claimed his allegiance.~ Albert Jay NockDost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?~ Count Axel OxenstiernaI believe more follies are committed out of complaisance to the world, than in following our own inclinations.~ Mary Wortley Montagu Jul 25, 2023True education makes for inequality; the inequality of individuality, the inequality of success, the glorious inequality of talent, of genius; for inequality, not mediocrity, individual superiority, not standardization, is the measure of the progress of the world.~ Felix E. SchellingOur dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self esteem. If you need encouragement, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.~ Fritz PerlsIn education markets, like the Asian tutoring industry, top teachers are superstars who get to design curricula for thousands or even millions of students and train scores or hundreds of other teachers to use their effective methods. Quality providers expand and are emulated by competitors, and there is a powerful incentive for meaningful innovation. ... One teacher in Korea’s private tutoring sector made $2 million last year because his web-based employer has profit sharing and he’s brilliant at what he does, so he gets tons of students. That’s what should have happened to [Jaime] Escalante. That’s the sort of success that should greet excellence in education at all levels. It doesn’t because we don’t have a market.~ Andrew J. Coulson Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print