Quotation Collection

It is not necessary for a man to be actively bad in order to make a failure in life; simple inaction will accomplish it. Nature has everywhere written her protest against idleness; everything which ceases to struggle, which remains inactive, rapidly deteriorates. It is a struggle toward an ideal, the constant effort to get higher and further, which develops manhood and character. James Terry White

• self improvement
• laziness

The ideal political-economic system is laissez-faire capitalism. It is a system where men deal with one another, not as victims and executioners, nor as masters and slaves, but as traders, by free, voluntary exchange to mutual benefit. It is a system where no man may obtain any values from others by resorting to physical force, and no man may initiate the use of physical force against others. The government acts only as a policeman that protects man's rights; it uses physical force only in retaliation and only against those who initiate its use, such as criminals or foreign invaders. In a system of full capitalism, there should be (but, historically, has not yet been) a complete separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church. Ayn Rand

• government
• capitalism
• economics

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes. Sara Teasdale

• contentment

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed to produce. François Fénelon

• courage
• results