Conservatives pride themselves on resisting change, which is as it should be. But intelligent deference to tradition and stability can evolve into intellectual sloth and moral fanaticism, as when conservatives simply decline to look up from dogma because the effort to raise their heads and reconsider is too great.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
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Once wide coercive powers are given to governmental agencies for particular purposes, such powers cannot be effectively controlled by democratic assemblies.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It’s nice.
~ J.D. Salinger
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When the modern corporation acquires power over markets, power in the community, power over the state and power over belief, it is a political instrument, different in degree but not in kind from the state itself.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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Knowing others is intelligence, knowing yourself is true wisdom.
~ Lao Zi
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