I don't want to rely on something that could be taken away at some point.
Capitalism is what people do if you leave them alone.
If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.
Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.
Moral vices prosper by dressing themselves as virtues.
Europeans have sometimes been beguiled by a despotism that comes concealed in the seductive form of an ideal – as it did in the cases of Hitler and Stalin. This fact may remind us that the possibility of despotism is remote neither in space nor in time.
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current nonsense: orthodox medicine on drug addiction, and romantic poets on the wisdom you supposedly enjoy from getting high.
Find a day for yourself-better yet, late at night. Go to the forest or to the field, or lock yourself in a room. . . You will meet solitude there. There you will be able to listen attentively to the noise of the wind first, to birds singing, to see wonderful nature and to notice yourself in it. . . and to come back to harmonic connection with the world and its Creator.
An individual should hold an awareness of God and His love all the time. He should not separate his consciousness from the Divine while he journeys on the way, nor when he lies down nor when he rises up.
Some people have religion as a means of solace. But, I had a dreidel, so that was out.
Success will (a. mel. io. rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.