Tag: Confucius

“What makes for the good society is a sound economy. Without it, all the rest falls apart.”

Lew Rockwell

“Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called.”

John Stuart Mill

“I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

Confucius

“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all, it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.”

H.L. Mencken

“Every government intervention creates unintended consequences which lead to calls for more government interventions.”

Ludwig von Mises

“In a country well governed, poverty is to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is to be ashamed of.”

Confucius

“Democracy has nothing to do with freedom. Democracy is a soft variant of communism, and rarely in the history of ideas has it been taken for anything else.”

Hans-Hermann Hoppe