Smithian Capitalism Quotes & Sayings

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation. — Anne McCaffrey

That was 1986. That year I felt myself to be drowning in the news reports of murder. I was aware that these murders very often did not land upon the intended targets but fell upon great-aunts, PTA mothers, overtime uncles, and joyful children - fell upon them random and relentless, like great sheets of rain. I knew this in theory but could not understand it as fact until the boy with the small eyes stood across from me holding my entire body in his small hands. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't like shit too perfect. I want some human stake in my shit. If it's too perfect I ain't really with it. If it's too clean I ain't really with it. If it's too polished I don't really like it. — Madlib

herbal tea infused with Echinacea extract. — Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

When you craft something you create an eternity. When you tear down you hurt and you destroy, but anger doesn't last forever and soon your destruction is but dust under the muse of another's creation. — Matthew Williamson

Resistance by its very nature demands that we choose choices not offered to us. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I see Nick's number. I debate whether to assign a name to his number. If I commit to that, then I will truly be heartbroken if he never calls me again; my heart will knot each and every time I use this phone and see his name in there. I would probably end up having to trash the phone entirely. — David Levithan

I want it said loudly and clearly that we can define racism in many ways, but it is, in my opinion, intellectually disingenuous to define it in a way that trivializes the role that racial hatred plays. Certainly, not all racism is hate-driven, but to ignore the connection between racial hate and racism is to reduce the concept of racism to a useless theoretical abstraction. — David Pilgrim

The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India. — Mahatma Gandhi

In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours. — George D. Prentice