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Economics is on the side of humanity now.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 18 “The Victors” (p. 185)
- Economics
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don’t come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Chapter 130, “Foreign Travel” (p. 421)
It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help.
Isaac Asimov1920–1992I. Asimov: A Memoir (1994), Chapter 102, “Al Capp” (p. 311)
- Charity
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.
W. H. Auden1907–1973The Dyer’s Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
- Poetry
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery.
Sri Aurobindo1872–1950New Lamps for Old (1893), 7 August 1893
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen1775–1817Northanger Abbey (1817), Chapter 14In context
- Comedy
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.
Mikhail Bakunin1814–1876“The Red Association” (1870)
- Economics
- Freedom
Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact.
Honoré de Balzac1799–1850La Duchesse de Langeais (1834), translated by Ellen Marriage, part II
Libertarianism. A simple-minded right-wing ideology ideally suited to those unable or unwilling to see past their own sociopathic self-regard.
Iain Banks1954–2013Transition (2009), Chapter 13 (p. 326)
- Clever Jabs
Big business never pays a nickel in taxes, according to Ralph Nader, who represents a big consumer organization that never pays a nickel in taxes.
Dave Barryborn 1947In: Your Guide to Self-Directed, Daniel Cordoba, CEA, 19 September 2008, p. 197.
- Dave Barry
The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery.
Dave Barryborn 1947Dave Barry Turns 40 (1990), p. 124
- Dave Barry
The major parties could conduct live human sacrifices on their podiums during prime time, and I doubt that anybody would notice.
Dave Barryborn 1947
- Dave Barry
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Saul Bellow1915–2005
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Saul Bellow1915–2005To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account (1976), p. 38
A religion may be discerned in capitalism⁠—that is to say, capitalism serves essentially to allay the same anxieties, torments, and disturbances to which the so-called religions offered answers.
Walter Benjamin1892–1940Translated by Rodney Livingstone in Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, Volume 1 (Harvard: 1996)
- Economics
- Religion