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“Schmoller said that those who would send every hungry person to a restaurant, every pregnant woman to a clinic, every child from birth to adulthood to a succession of educational institutions, will simply succeed in changing society into an aggregation of self-seeking, egotistical vagabonds, whose neuroses and tensions will provide a surplus of candidates for mental hospitals.”
― Ethics and the National Economy
― Ethics and the National Economy
“If war were purely and absolutely bad in every single aspect and toxic in all its effects, it would probably not happen as often as it does. But in addition to all the destruction and loss of life, war also inspires ancient human virtues of courage, loyalty, and selflessness that can be utterly intoxicating to the people who experience them.”
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
― Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
“Man cannot live by bread alone; but if he chooses to nourish his mind on the wrong kind of spiritual food, he won't even get bread. He won't even get bread, because he'll be so busy killing or preparing to kill his neighbours in the name of God, or Country, or Social Justice that he won't be able to cultivate his fields.”
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
― After Many a Summer Dies the Swan
“[T]o be forever looking beyond is to remain blind to what is here.”
― Nature, Man and Woman
― Nature, Man and Woman
“The trouble with the world is, like a planet full of little brats, everyone's going around constantly pointing the finger at everyone else as being to blame. Almost none look within and at themselves, and commence again from there.
At each and every level of day-to-day life, and just beneath the surface all the while, particularly in so-called leadership, though it's rarely if ever expressed - the immaturity of our age is utterly staggering.”
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At each and every level of day-to-day life, and just beneath the surface all the while, particularly in so-called leadership, though it's rarely if ever expressed - the immaturity of our age is utterly staggering.”
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