Occupation: Philosopher Birth: October 31, 1903 Death: March 1, 1987
The more one considers the matter, the clearer it becomes that redistribution is in effect far less a redistribution of free income from the richer t….
Ransack the history of revolutions, and it will be found that every fall of a regime has been presaged by a defiance which went unpunished. It is as ….
We are ending where the savages began. We have found again the lost arts of starving non-combatants, burning hovels, and leading away the vanquished ….
For, once man is declared 'the measure of all things,' there is no longer a true, or a good, or a just, but only opinions of equal validity whose cla….
It is appropriate here to recall that the so-called Dark Ages began with the flight of the individuals into the protection of lords or chapters and c….
But there are no institutions on earth which enable each separate person to have a hand in the exercise of Power, for Power is command, and everyone ….
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman….
Command is a mountaintop. The air breathed there is different, and the perspectives seen there are different, from those of the valley of obedience. ….
Sooner or later, a society of sheep must create a government of wolves..
Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation..
Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns..
A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead..