Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.
~ Dean Acheson
:::
Quote, Unquote
Reply
Category Archives: 1659 – Quote Unquote
Quote, Unquote
Organizations are goal-directed, boundary-maintaining, activity systems.
~ Howard E. Aldrich
:::
Quote, Unquote
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
~ Roger Scruton
:::
Quote, Unquote
It is impossible to introduce into society a greater change and a greater evil than this: the conversion of the law into an instrument of plunder.
~ Frédéric Bastiat
:::
Quote, Unquote
Force can overcome force, but a free society cannot long steel itself to dominate another people by sheer force.
~ Dean Acheson
:::
Quote, Unquote
Both Franz Kafka and the Bible are inexhaustible sources of meaning because they overflow any box we build around them. They exist on a plane of Western consciousness so formative of ours today that they seem to come from everywhere and nowhere.
~ Judith Shulevitz via The Atlantic
:::
Quote, Unquote
This labour of the artist to discover a means of apprehending beneath matter and experience, beneath words, something different from their appearance, is of an exactly contrary nature to the operation in which pride, passion, intelligence and habit are constantly engaged within us when we spend our lives without self-communion, accumulating as though to hide our true impressions, the terminology for practical ends which we falsely call life.
~ Marcel Proust
:::
Quote, Unquote
War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings.
~ Ludwig von Mises
:::
Quote, Unquote
Roundly insulting one’s superiors behind their backs was one of the perks of being inferior.
~ Iain Banks
:::
Quote, Unquote
Democracies owe their existence to national loyalties — the loyalties that are supposedly shared by government and opposition, by all political parties, and by the electorate as a whole. Wherever the experience of nationality is weak or non-existent, democracy has failed to take root. For without national loyalty, opposition is a threat to government, and political disagreements create no common ground.
~ Roger Scruton
:::