Ultra Capitalism Quotes & Sayings

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. — Benjamin Franklin

Most children seem eager, even desperate, to please those in authority, reluctant to rock the boat even when the boat clearly needs rocking. In a way, an occasional roll-your-eyes story of excess in the other direction marks the exception that proves the rule. And the rule is a silent epidemic of obedience. For every kid who is slapped with the label "Oppositional Defiant Disorder," hundreds suffer from what one educator has mischievously called Compliance Acquiescent Disorder. The symptoms of CAD, he explained, include the following: "defers to authority," "actively obeys rules," "fails to argue back," "knuckles under instead of mobilizing others in support," and "stays restrained when outrage is warranted. — Alfie Kohn

Like my father I, too, was born in Central America - Nebraska. — Carlos Mencia

You earn your future, Malta Vestrit." The bead-maker cocked her head at her. "What does tomorrow owe you?" "Tomorrow owes me?" Malta repeated in confusion.
"Tomorrow owes you the sum of your yesterdays. No more than that." Amber looked out to sea again. "And no less. Sometimes folk wish tomorrow did not pay them off so completely. — Robin Hobb

The high road is something very, very long, of which one cannot see the end - like human life, like human dreams. There is an idea in the open road, but what sort of idea is there in travelling with posting tickets? Posting tickets mean an end to ideas. Vive la grande route and then as God wills. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion. — Albert Einstein

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent. — Michael Mandelbaum

Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending 250 grand for a video that no one is ever going to see. — Sebastian Bach

The fault in his son lay not in his nature, which was honorable, but in his perceptions, which were limited. — Edward Rutherfurd

That which is not worth doing at all is not worth doing well. — Warren Buffett

In certain cases, a man blind from birth may have an operation performed which gives him his sight. The result: frequently misery, confusion, disorientation. The light that illumines the madman is an unearthly light, but I do not believe it is a projection, an emanation from his mundane ego. He is irradiated by a light that is more than he. It may burn him out. — R.D. Laing

The true state of the union lies in your heart, and in your home. — Cathy McMorris Rodgers

There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious. — Albert Einstein

The difference between a theist and an atheist is the degree to which God has revealed himself to them. — Eli Of Kittim

His daily prayer, far better understood in acts than in words, was simply doing good. — John Greenleaf Whittier