philosophy

"It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced."

"The two preponderant forces at work are technological development, which made for a relative increase in demand and hence in the income ratio... and increased access to schooling, which made for a rel…"

"By capital we understand everything that, from the special use by the individual, or from its being placed at the disposal of others, produces a revenue or rent. We do not inquire into its origin, or …"

"The idea is that you could sacrifice something of value, and that would have transcendent utility. That is by no means an unsophisticated idea. In fact, it might be the greatest idea that human beings…"

"The abolition of private property is, doubtless, the shortest and most significant way to characterize the revolution in the whole social order which has been made necessary by the development of indu…"

"Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citi…"

"In the many years in which he had toiled to bring civilization to different parts of Africa he had learned a number of things. One of them was that a District Commissioner must never attend to such un…"

"It was an extraordinary display! Daily did this manner of slaughter and plundering proceed. And at night the shrieks of the women captives who were being raped, deafened the ears of the people…All tho…"

"Fidelity is not a reason for dulling attention."

"To be simply a poorly paid or seldom played composer seems so tragic to me. But to be a woman composer with all the trials and tribulations that seem to go along with being a woman composer, puts ever…"

"Mystics have been fundamental to the church. A religion without mystics is a philosophy. Ignatius, for understandable reasons, is the saint I know better than any other. He founded our Order. I'd like…"

"Is our race but the initial of the grand crowning type? Are there yet to be species superior to us in organization, purer in feeling, more powerful in device and act, and who shall take a rule over us…"

"Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes—that they have done for some time…"

"You know, I think you see a model here in Arizona. They passed a law here that says — that says that people who come here and try and find work, that the employer is required to look them up on. This …"

"And here I cannot help mentioning a very ridiculous show of a learned pig, which of late days attracted much of the public notice, and at the polite end of the town. This pig, which indeed was a large…"

"Unlike the members of the physical and biological sciences, the economist is asked to explain his work in a manner that is interesting and convincing to a weary listener. Yet there is no reason to bel…"

"I apologize to Jewish Americans if they feel offended. But I also apologize to that were put in prison during World War II, and I also apologize to those people that were accused of being communists d…"

"An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance."

"The planting of hemp and flax would be an unknown advantage to the kingdom, many places therein being as apt for it , as any foreig parts."

"The least pain in our little finger gives us more concern and uneasiness, than the destruction of millions of our fellow-beings."