Paternalists Quotes & Sayings

The trouble with paternalists is that they want to make impossibly profound changes, and they choose impossibly superficial means for doing so. — Jane Jacobs

Each of our collections is like a movie. We write the script, and this Sicilian woman who has traveled around the world plays the lead role. — Domenico Dolce

Libertarian paternalism is a relatively weak, soft, and nonintrusive type of paternalism because choices are not blocked, fenced off, or significantly burdened. If people want to smoke cigarettes, to eat a lot of candy, to choose an unsuitable health care plan, or to fail to save for retirement, libertarian paternalists will not force them to do otherwise - or even make things hard for them. — Anonymous

Only idiots and infants need things. The language of needs is the native tongue of socialists, therapists, and paternalists of all sorts and is addressed to needy dependents. The language of wants is spoken by self-respecting adults and is addressed to other self-respecting adults. — Thomas Szasz

I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came. — James Stockdale

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe. — Tom G. Palmer

Let us ease the Roman people of their continual care, who think it long to await the death of an old man. — Hannibal

It looks like it's been furnished by discount stores. — Jackie Kennedy

I used to change things in my early paintings to get the nuance or feeling I wanted, but now I plan everything in my head before I do it. — Cy Twombly