Fortune Quote #3779

...mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent... -- Adam Smith

Fortune Quote #3778

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its
victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber
barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty
may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those
who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so
with the approval of their own conscience. -- C. S. Lewis

Fortune Quote #3777

The gods mercifully gave mankind this little moment of peace between the
religious fanaticisms of the past and the fanaticisms of class and race
that were speedily to arise and dominate time to come. -- G. M.
Trevelyan

Fortune Quote #3776

Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to
iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of
character and personality. -- William R. Allen

Fortune Quote #3775

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each
generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century,
civilization would die, and we should be savages again. -- Will and
Ariel Durant

Fortune Quote #3774

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. -- Joseph A.
Schumpeter

Fortune Quote #3773

You know, doing what is right is easy. The problem is knowing what is
right. -- Lyndon B. Johnson

Fortune Quote #3772

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was
very foolish. -- F. A. Hayek

Fortune Quote #3771

...you can never be happy and dress yourself solely in the glass of other
men's approval. -- Nicholas Flood Davis

Fortune Quote #3770

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of
evil men. -- Edmund Burke