Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
If there is a god maybe it rewards those who don't believe on the basis of insufficient evidence--and punishes those who do.
When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
I am basically analytical, not creative; my writing is simply a creative way of handling analysis.
It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen.
Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy.
Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.
What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.
There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.
It's easy for you people here; you live a safe, purposeless life, nothing to do, nothing to worry about.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income.
A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is self-sufficing, but all of us have many wants.
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.
