Alex Hardy

“We fight for and against not men and things as they are, but for and against the caricatures we make of them.”
― Joseph A. Schumpeter, History of Economic Analysis

“If we take the widest and wisest view of a Cause, there is no such thing as a Lost Cause because there is no such thing as a Gained Cause. We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors’ victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph.”
― T.S. Eliot, Selected Essays: 1917-1932

“Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.”
― Eric Hoffer

“If you want to expel religion from our European civilization, you can only do it by means of another system of doctrines; and such a system would from the outset take over all the psychological characteristics of religion—the same sanctity, rigidity and intolerance, the same prohibition of thought—for its own defence. You have to have something of the kind in order to meet the requirements of education. And you cannot do without education.”
― Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion