Havemann Benjamin Quotes & Sayings

Laissez Faire was very good sauce for the goose, labor, but was very poor sauce for the gander, capital. — Benjamin Tucker

No way of life so entrenched will ever 'wither away' - it must be helped, with dynamite, if need be. — Joyce Carol Oates

There is one further distinguishing characteristic of man which is very specific indeed and about which there can be no dispute, and that is the faculty of self-improvement - a faculty which, with the help of circumstance, progressively develops all our other faculties. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet. — Phyllis McGinley

When I wanted to quit smoking cannabis a few years ago and found that I couldn't do it under my own steam I went in search of a self-help book to show me the way. Annoyingly all I could find were books on how to cultivate the damn stuff. So to exact my revenge on the world of publishing I decided to one day write that book myself. — Chris Sullivan

If you want to build a recursively self-improving AI, have it go through a billion sequential self-modifications, become vastly smarter than you, and not die, you've got to work to a pretty precise standard. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Love is higher than existence, love is the crown of existence; and how is it possible that existence should not be under its dominance? — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You can't get more by going for less. — Marshall Sylver

A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland. — Betty Hill

What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to create? What is it I want to leave behind? — Alan Alda

If we spoke less and sang songs of faith more, the world would be more Heavenly. — T. B. Joshua