“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czesław Miłosz
QUOTE OF THE DAY
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
Czesław Miłosz
“Civil people learn to ignore most of the negative externalities that others inflict on them, and try to be sensitive to the unintended costs that their own actions impose on others. The first step toward containing the problems created by negative externalities is to cultivate the civic virtues of empathy, courtesy, humility, and tolerance. Civilization will simply be impossible among a people who don’t possess substantial amounts of these virtues. If people insist on obtaining absolutely everything to which they think they have a right, civilization will give way to warfare.”
The Economic Way of Thinking.