I’m not anti-capitalist. I actually support capitalism, I think it’s a good thing. I just think you can have capitalism without corruption,Source: Alessio Rastani, October, 2011
Where we once thought ourselves collectively strong, we now regard ourselves as individually entitled.Source: Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning, 1997, pg 1
The enforced irresponsibility has itself become a factor in pathology, for a burden of responsibility is, after all, the best means of getting anyone to think straight.Source: Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences 1948
There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.Source: Charles Dickens, Unsourced
... a look at the nature of things is imperative, for our conception of metaphysical reality finally governs our conception of everything else, and, if we feel that creation does not express purpose, it is impossible to find an authorization for purpose in our lives. Indeed, the assertion of purpose in a world we felt to be purposeless would be a form of sentimentality.Source: Richard Weaver, Ideas Have Consequences 1948
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.Source: Charles Dickens, Bleak House, 1853
