The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is co...mmonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If America does not wish to end her days in the same nursing home as Britannia she had best end this geo-babble about new world or...ders. Our war, the Cold War, is over. It is time for America to come home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As a preacher, I should be prompted to tell men, not so much how to get their wheat bread cheaper, as of the bread of life compare...d with which that is bran. Let a man only taste these loaves, and he becomes a skillful economist at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon the world. It has failed to understand that the world is not f...or the beholding. It is for hearing. It is not legible, but audible. Our science has always desired to monitor, measure, abstract, and castrate meaning, forgetting that life is full of noise and that death alone is silent: work noise, noise of man, and noise of beast. Noise bought, sold, or prohibited. Nothing essential happens in the absence of noise.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in othe...r people's minds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »