Men famously think about Rome every day, and political commentators have been nervously comparing Rome’s fall to a potential American collapse since before America even had a Constitution.
~ Vann Newkirk via The Atlantic
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Category Archives: 0747 – Quote Unquote
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If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.
~ Richard Rorty
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Abounding in minorities, the left is increasingly attentive to hierarchies of respect and vigilant about monitoring them. Abounding in intellectuals, it is increasingly — and mistakenly — inclined to view democracy as a search for truth rather than as a search for consensus; it is prone to cast those who disagree with it, no matter how numerous, as democracy’s enemies and even as authoritarians.
~ Christopher Caldwell via The New York Times
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To express what I feel I use the medium best suited to express that idea, which is also always the most economical one.
~ Emmanuel Radnitzky
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Governor Newsom, who has not changed his cellphone number since becoming mayor of San Francisco, in 2004, has nine thousand twenty-two personal contacts on his phone, and is in touch with a startling number of them as he tries to widen his view.
~ Nathan Heller via The New Yorker
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When consumers are lured into debt with offers to buy that shirt in four easy payments, that’s financialization at work. When you can’t keep track of all the subscription services needed to follow your favorite N.B.A. team, that’s financialization, too. When you’re no longer allowed to record your own child’s hockey game because an investment group bought the rink, that’s financialization.
~ Oren Cass via The New York Times
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America rests on a foundation of ordered liberty. The state sets broad rules that are intended to be timeless and universal, and implements those rules. We have not always done that perfectly, but the idea was that we were always getting better.
~ Dean Ball via The Atlantic
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Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
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Bounded rationality means that people make quite reasonable decisions based on the information they have. But they don’t have perfect information, especially about more distant parts of the system.
~ Donella Meadows
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