The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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Author Archives: Seamas Anstruther
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
~ Charles Bukowski
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Environmental niches are distinct in combination of resources and other constraints that are sufficient to support organizational form. Organizational forms, then, are organized activity systems oriented toward exploiting the resources within a niche.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
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There is no doubt in my mind that, from the third-person point of view, monarchy is the most reasonable form of government. By embodying the state in a fragile human person, it captures the arbitrariness and the givenness of political allegiance, and so transforms allegiance into affection.
~ Roger Scruton
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In dreams begins responsibility.
~ William Butler Yeats
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
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The qualities which produce the dogged, unbeatable courage of the British, personified at the time by Winston Churchill, can appear in other settings as stubbornness bordering on stupidity.
~ Dean Acheson
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Sometimes, the only way of doing something is to do it.
~ John Lanchester
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Time will prolong time, and life will serve life.
~ Albert Camus
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Better a debauched canary than a pious wolf.
~ Anton Chekhov
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