Quotes
Quotes about Ants
Economics is a theoretical science and as such abstains from any judgement of value. It is not its task to tell people what ends they should aim at. It is a science of the means to be applied for attainment of ends chosen, not, to be sure, a science of the choosing of ends. Ultimate decisions, the valuations and the choosing of ends, are beyond the scope of any science. Science never tells a man how he should act; it merely shows how a man must act if he wants to attain definite ends.
My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.
A man is a person that will pay two dollars for a one dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two dollar item she doesn't want.
If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered.
We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map.
I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
What man wants is simply independent choice, whatever that independence may cost and where ever it may lead.
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.'
The future is like heaven. Everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
Gallantry to women--the sure road to their favor--is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.
If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Words are dwarfs, deeds are giants.
Take care, your worship, those things over there are not giants but windmills.
For it is truly bizarre for artists to be universally ranked among the giants, for generation after generation . . . and then be cast from the highest slopes of Parnassus to the lower slopes of art's ever-growing dust-heap.
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Who pants for glory, finds but short repose; A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
What nature wants, commodious gold bestows; 'Tis thus we cut the bread another sows.
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, The signet of its all-enslaving power Upon a shining ore, and called it gold; Before whose image bow the vulgar great, The vainly rich, the miserable proud, The mob of peasants, nobles, priests, and kings, And with blind feelings reverence the power That grinds them to the dust of misery. But in the temple of their hireling hearts Gold is a living god, and rules in scorn All earthly things but virtue.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Men must be governed by God or they will be ruled by tyrants.
Everybody wants to eat at the government's table, but nobody wants to do the dishes.
