It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on the intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since…it is futile to reason someone out of a thing that he was not reasoned into, we can conclude that Marxism owes its remarkable power to survive every criticism to the fact that it is not a truth-directed but a power-directed system of thought.
Category: Friday Quote
Friday Quote – Randall Munroe
The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there’s no good reason to go into space – each discovered, studied, remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.
Friday Quote – Jordan Petersen
The proper way to fix the world isn’t to fix the world. There’s no reason to assume that you’re even up to such a task. But you can fix yourself. You’ll do no one any harm by doing so, and in that manner at least, you will make the world a better place.
Friday Quote – Wyatt Earp
Fast is fine, but accuracy is final. You must learn to be slow in a hurry.
Friday Quote – Charles Dickens
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.
Friday Quote – G.K. Chesterton
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
Friday Quote – Frederick Douglass
Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.
Friday Quote – Lawrence W. Reed
Capitalism is what happens when you leave peaceful people alone. Socialism is what happens when you don’t. Capitalism is spontaneous natural order. Socialism is just some bully’s orders.
Friday Quote – Oscar Wilde
Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.
Friday Quote – Will Spencer
If your answer to every failure of government is more government, you are like an alcoholic trying to drink yourself sober.