Citations phuns et plus si affinités

[Hugh]

"La france redoute plus les excès de la liberté que les excès du pouvoir"

 

                                                                                                       Napoléon III

 

Mais est le même en autres pays...

[Hugh]

Platon (La République):

 

"Ceci est une énigme : un homme qui n'est pas un homme, voyant et ne voyant pas un oiseau qui n'est pas un oiseau, perché sur arbre qui n'est pas un arbre, le frappe et ne le frappe pas avec une pierre qui n'est pas une pierre":

 

Révélation

"Un eunuque borgne vise une chauve-souris perchée sur un sureau avec une pierre ponce et la manque"

 

[Hugh]

"Fascism is the stage reached after communism has proved an illusion"

 

                                                                                                  F.A. Hayek

[Rübezahl]

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance" - HL Mencken

[Hugh]

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, 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.”

 

                                                                                Roger Scruton

[Lameador]

10 hours ago, Hugh said:

“It is not the truth of Marxism that explains the willingness of intellectuals to believe it, but the power that it confers on intellectuals, in their attempts to control the world. And since, as Swift says, 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.”

 

                                                                                Roger Scruton

 

C'est détaillé plus longuement ici : https://institutdeslibertes.org/marx-pareto-et-schumpeter/

 

[Vilfredo]

“Socialism is an alternative to capitalism as potassium cyanide is an alternative to water.” Mises, Human Action

[Hugh]

"What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It's not good at much else."

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Tom Clancy

[Hugh]

“The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”

 

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Aldous Huxley

[Hugh]

"It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own."

 

                                                                                                                                                                           Marcus Aurelius

[Rübezahl]

"For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live." —Theodor Adorno

[Rübezahl]

There has never been a shortage of people eager to draw up blueprints for running other people’s lives. - Thomas Sowell

[Rübezahl]

* "La "planification" du gouvernement n'est pas une alternative au chaos. C'est une préemption sur les plans des autres." - Thomas Sowell

[Hugh]

“Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.” - Ambrose Bierce

[calypso13]

La vérité est mystérieuse, fuyante, toujours à conquérir. La liberté est dangereuse, dure à vivre autant qu'exaltante

 

Albert Camus

 

 

[Rübezahl]

"You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up." —Chuck Yeager

[Rübezahl]

“How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories?

One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.” -- John Nance Garner

[Hugh]

"Ne fais jamais rien contre ta conscience, même si l'État te le demande" Albert Einstein

 

 

[Hugh]

“You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?"
These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them.
You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade.” - Carl Sagan

[Boz]

Oui, ils ont découvert que les réponses demandaient un long effort intellectuel et du travail soutenu, et comme c'était fatiguant et moins drôle que de jouer à Fortnite ils sont passés à autre chose (jérémiades de prof blasé ne pas prêter attention ?).

[Rübezahl]

"No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion."

- Ludwig von Mises

 

[Hugh]

“I am fascinated by the idea that our civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness” - Werner Herzog

[Hugh]

"How are children supposed to learn to act like adults, when so much of what they see on television shows adults acting like children?" -  Thomas Sowell

[Rübezahl]

“Never argue with an idiot; they’ll drag youdown to their level and beat you with experience.”- Charlie Ritchie of the BACKWOODSMAN Magazine

[Rübezahl]

"Le socialisme a un historique d'échecs si flagrant que seul un intellectuel pourrait l'ignorer." - Thomas Sowell

[Rübezahl]

"How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." - Anne Frank

 

(celle là, elle me scie un peu).

[Rübezahl]

Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from. - Thomas Sowell

[Waren]

L'économie est de l'astronomie et la finance de l'astrologie. (Inconnue mais citée par Jean-Marc Daniel)

 

 

 

[Sekonda]

6 hours ago, Waren said:

L'économie est de l'astronomie et la finance de l'astrologie. (Inconnue mais citée par Jean-Marc Daniel)

JMD l'attribue à Kenneth Arrow.

[Hugh]

"Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all" - Abraham Lincoln