John Hospers Quotes

#1. I always take the same perspective with each new adventure. I put myself in the position of being at the end of my life looking back. Then I ask myself if what I am doing is important to me.

Reinhold Messner

#2. Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor.

John Hospers

#3. If each human being is to have liberty, he cannot also have the liberty to deprive others of their liberty.

John Hospers

#4. The greater the hold of government upon the life of the individual citizen, the greater the risk of war.

John Hospers

#5. I have learned that images have the power to educate, honor, humiliate, and illuminate.

David Doubilet

#6. Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. You don't win or lose the games bcoz of 11 you select.
You win or lose with what those 11 do on the field.

Rahul Dravid

#8. The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or stupidity of the voting majority.

John Hospers

#9. More than almost any current book, DTU will wake the reader from his dogmatic slumbers. It is eminently readable, challenging, and provocative.

John Hospers

#10. What stopped you? Why didn't you help her?" [Naji]
"Cause you're my friend," I said. [Ananna]
All the hardness in his features melted away. "Oh.

Cassandra Rose Clarke

#11. You strayed from the way and did not return because you were ashamed. It would be more logical if you were ashamed not to return.

Josemaria Escriva

#12. All of William S. Burroughs friends pushed it forward and introduced me to one another. I was able to enter into that beat family for a while and document it.

Yony Leyser