Joel

“A humanist has four leading characteristics - curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.”
― E.M. Forster

“Nothing that liberals have done over the years to redistribute income from the haves to the have-less comes anywhere near this tectonic shift of the distribution of income from “labor” to “capital.”32”
― Steven Pearlstein, Moral Capitalism: Why Fairness Won't Make Us Poor

“Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.”
― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World