For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts. In the history of the refused in the arts and literature the rapidity of the change is always startling.
~ Gertrude Stein
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Author Archives: Gareth Antigua
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Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Trust is less quantifiable than other forms of capital. Its decline is vaguely felt before it’s plainly seen.
~ Jerry Useem via The Atlantic
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The more I detest men individually the more ardent
becomes my love for humanity.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know.
~ Arthur Koestler
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The principal function of anti-Americanism has always been, and still is, to discredit liberalism by discrediting its supreme incarnation. To travesty the United States as a repressive, unjust, racist—almost fascist—society was a way of proclaiming: look what happens when liberalism is implemented!
~ Jean-François Revel
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All paradises, all utopias are designed by who is not there, by the people who are not allowed in.
~ Toni Morrison
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It is highly significant, and indeed almost a rule, that moral courage has its source in identification through one’s own sensitivity with the suffering of one’s fellow human beings.
~ Rollo May
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Since the value of freedom rests on the opportunities it provides for unforeseen and unpredictable actions, we will rarely know what we lose through a particular restriction of freedom.
~ Friedrich Hayek
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