Quotes and Passages
Weekly (or so) we will post an interesting passage from a book or
article or post a quote here. Feel free to send in your own suggestions to 
November 30, 2004
I responded to the way it understood that a great movie can involve not plot but
life and the daily living of it, and that although movies can amuse and excite us, their
greatest consolation comes when they understand us.--Roger
Ebert
November 15, 2004
"Free trade, one of the
greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country
unpopular.--Thomas Macaulay, 1824
November 8, 2004
"Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to
pause and reflect." -- Mark Twain
November 1, 2004
"The lifeblood of capitalism is not the Internet or fast-food franchises. It is
capital."--Peruvian economist Hernando De Soto.
October 31, 2004
"as recently as 1941 the United States and Great Britain were essentially
the only major capitalist countries left on the face of the earth...All the rest of the
world were fascists, communists or third world feudal colonies. The final crisis of
the 1920s and the Great Depression of the 1930s had brought capitalism to the edge of
extinction. The capitalism that now seems irresistible could, with just a few
missteps, have vanished." Economist Lester Thurow.
October 22, 2004
"Putting the 'F' back in freedom"--Team America World Police |
