Anthony De Jasay Quotes

#1. Have a similar outlook as a monarch. A ruler is not reluctant to come up short. Disappointment is an alternate steppingstone to significance.

Oprah Winfrey

#2. Cos a cop asking a guy for a discount on his crack, that's screwed up.
Sign of the goddamn apocalypse is what it is.

Warren Ellis

#3. The smaller the domain where choices among alternatives are made collectively, the smaller will be the probability that any individual's preference gets overruled.

Anthony De Jasay

#4. Salus populi suprema lex esto. Let the good (or safety) of the people be the supreme (or highest) law.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#5. Hope doesn't like to be beaten down, though, does it? Hope is what gets us through. Hope, and the prayer it wants to become.

Jan Ellison

#6. The sobbing wind is fierce and strong; its cry is like a human wail.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

#7. Having gathered all power to itself, [the State] has become the sole focus of all conflict, and it must construct totalitarian defences to match its total exposure.

Anthony De Jasay

#8. Your mother and I had always been secretly pleased that you were so headstrong and passionate about your causes. Once you were gone, we understood that these were the qualities that painted young men as smart and ambitious and young women as trouble.

Karin Slaughter

#9. The physical world we live in is just the beginning.

Doug Dillon

#10. Shopkeepers are not bankers.

Laurent Fabius

#11. Self-imposed limits on sovereign power can disarm mistrust, but provide no guarantee of liberty and property beyond those afforded by the balance between state and private force.

Anthony De Jasay

#12. In the process of helping some (perhaps most) people to more utility and justice, the state imposes on civil society a system of interdictions and commands.

Anthony De Jasay

#13. An artist should be taking risks. That's the whole idea of being an artist.

JR