Top 30 Turgot Quotes
#1. After Montesquieu, the next great addition to Sociology (which is the term I may be allowed to invent to designate Social Physics) was made by Condorcet, proceeding on the views suggested by his illustrious friend Turgot.
Auguste Comte
#2. For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.
Andrew Dickson White
#3. Eripuit coele fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis," or from Latin to English "He snatched the lightning from the skies and the scepter from the tyrants. Jacques Turgot
Nye
#4. All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
#5. The expenses of government, having for their object the interests of all, should be borne by every one, and the more a man enjoys the advantages of society, the more he ought to hold himself honoured in contributing to these expenses.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#6. Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#7. I was waiting for
something extraordinary to
happen
but as the years wasted on
nothing ever did unless I
caused it.
Charles Bukowski
#8. I don't believe we shall ever again have any form of society in which men will be free. One should not hope for it. One should not hope for anything. Hope is invented by politicians to keep the electorate happy.
Pier Paolo Pasolini
#10. As the Indian government has embraced greater economic openness, the creativity and expertise of the Indian workforce has been unleashed onto the world economic stage.
Henry Paulson
#13. Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#14. Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#16. Peeves are like that: my peeves are law, yours are unhealthy obsessions.
Robert Lane Greene
#17. That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!
David Hackworth
#19. Set a goal to be happy; now do only what makes you happy.
Debasish Mridha
#20. The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
George Crook
#21. All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#22. In dream consciousness ... we make things happen by wishing them, because we are not only the observer of what we experience but also the creator.
Pir Vilayat Khan
#23. How was I supposed to know what's real and what's not? It feels like I'm the only one who doesn't know the difference.
Jenny Han
#25. Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.
Florence King
#26. It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
#27. It sometimes makes me feel sexy to wear something revealing. But I have gone too far. I have to be honest about that.
Toni Braxton
#28. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves.
George Orwell
#29. Open your mind to what I shall disclose, and hold it fast within you; he who hears, but does not hold what he has heard, learns nothing.
Dante Alighieri
#30. It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.
Martin Luther King Jr.
