Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there. Isabel Paterson More Quotes by Isabel Paterson More Quotes From Isabel Paterson The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race. Isabel Paterson half race would-be Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity. Isabel Paterson rugged terrible right-now But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism. Isabel Paterson numbers people years An abstraction will move a mountain: Nothing can withstand an idea. Isabel Paterson mountain ideas moving Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily. Isabel Paterson obliged justify If there were just one gift you could choose, but nothing barred, what would it be? We wish you then your own wish; you name it. Ours is liberty, now and forever. Isabel Paterson names wish forever What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way. Isabel Paterson done doe world As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid. Isabel Paterson stand-alone freak law As such, the least practicable measure of government must be the best. Anything beyond the minimum must be oppression. Isabel Paterson oppression being-the-best government Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission. Isabel Paterson lapses omission people If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress. Isabel Paterson reactionaries progress years Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status. Isabel Paterson wall energy together The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God. Isabel Paterson wish men order The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it. Isabel Paterson truth-is men believe An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation. Isabel Paterson productive-life army energy Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space. Isabel Paterson distance space long If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish. Isabel Paterson betrayal race would-be Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything. Isabel Paterson enough young giving One genius is about all a house will hold. Isabel Paterson genius house
