You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen I advise you as long as the capitalist system lasts to vote for gold.
I mean Negative Capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties Mysteries doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason….
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist seeing the rich man and his fine home says: No man should have so much. The capitalist seeing the same thing says: All men should have as much.
And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of system.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists other new insights begin.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior in his thriving and declining in his harmony and discord. Similarly there is timing in the Way of the merchant in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
Its no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And with due respect to these gentlemen I advise you as long as the capitalist system lasts to vote for gold.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
We do not correct the man we hang; we correct others by him.
I mean Negative Capability that is when man is capable of being in uncertainties Mysteries doubts without any irritable reaching after fact and reason….
What still alive at twenty-two A clean upstanding lad like you? Sure if your throat tis hard to slit Slit your girls and swing for it.
Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.
To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education.
We are rich only through what we give And poor only through what we refuse.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist seeing the rich man and his fine home says: No man should have so much. The capitalist seeing the same thing says: All men should have as much.
Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
GUILLOTINE n. A machine which makes a Frenchman shrug his shoulders with good reason.
When you know that youre capable of dealing with whatever comes you have the only security the world has to offer.
And while the law [of competition] may be sometimes hard for the individual it is best for the race because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.
The mind of man is capable of anythingbecause everything is in it all the past as well as all the future.
We need not all agree but if we disagree let us not be disagreeable in our disagreements.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
What kind of society isnt structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that kind of system.
Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation but he does not know what to create.
Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists other new insights begin.
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies private individuals will occasionally kill theirs.
If we are to abolish the death penalty I should like to see the first step taken by our friends the murderers.
Perfect virtue consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.
Hanging one scoundrel it appears does not deter the next. Well what of it? The first one at least is disposed of.
Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire.
There is timing in the whole life of the warrior in his thriving and declining in his harmony and discord. Similarly there is timing in the Way of the merchant in the rise and fall of capital. All things entail rising and falling timing. You must be able to discern this.
However vast a mans spiritual resources he is capable of but one great passion.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing More a cunning thing but very few a generous thing.
I think more people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.
Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.
Its no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress not merely in production but also in knowledge. Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit and seldom draw to their full extent.
If you divorce capital from labor capital is hoarded and labor starves.
Many of us are more capable than some of us … but none of us is as capable as all of us!!