Jerry Elix
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“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
― A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
“His was the unconstrained vision of human nature, in which man was capable of directly feeling other people’s needs as more important than his own, and therefore of consistently acting impartially, even when his own interests or those of his family were involved.”
― A Conflict of Visions
― A Conflict of Visions
“practically every individual has some advantage over all others because he possesses unique information of which beneficial use might be made, but of which use can be made only if the decisions depending on it are left to him or are made with his active cooperation.”
― A Conflict of Visions
― A Conflict of Visions
“I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good.”
― A Conflict of Visions
― A Conflict of Visions
“Alexander Hamilton in The Federalist Papers: It is the lot of all human institutions, even those of the most perfect kind, to have defects as well as excellencies—ill as well as good propensities.”
― A Conflict of Visions
― A Conflict of Visions
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