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| Author | Book Title (Text) | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | The Brothers Karamazov | On Human nature : Every man has reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has other matters in his mind which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But there are other things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind. |
| Fyodor Dostoevsky | Crime and Punishment | Literary prowess that made me tear up : one of the most moving descriptions of a child seeing a horse being flogged to death, Raskolnikov’s dream |
But the poor mare was in a bad way. She was gasping, standing still, then tugging again and almost falling. 'Thrash her to death!' shouted Mikolka. 'It's come to that. I'll do her in once and for all!' 'Papa, papa,' he cried, 'papa, what are they doing? Papa, they are beating the poor horse!' 'Come along, come along!' said his father. 'They are drunken and foolish, they are in sport; come away, don't look!' and he tried to draw him away, but he tore himself away from his hand, and, beside himself with horror, ran to the horse.
| | Frederic Bastiat | That which is seen and that which is not seen | Classic thought in frugality, ideals for the role of government, possibly inspired thinkers like Frederick Hayek ,
When a public expense is proposed, it ought to be examined in itself, separately from the pretended encouragement of labour which results from it, for this encouragement is a delusion. | | Frederic Bastiat | The Law | For gifting everyone the beauty of plain spoken honesty of clear ideas about law, socialism, populism
on the negative concept of law: … the statement, the purpose of the law is to cause justice to reign, is not a rigorously accurate statement. It ought to be stated that the purpose of the law is to prevent injustice from reigning. In fact, it is injustice, instead of justice, that has an existence of its own. Justice is achieved only when injustice is absent.
Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enforced equality. Then they say that we are against equality. And so on, and so on. It is as if the socialists were to accuse us of not wanting persons to eat because we do not want the state to raise grain.
God has given to men all that is necessary for them to accomplish their destinies. He has provided a social form as well as a human form. And these social organs of persons are so constituted that they will develop themselves harmoniously in the clean air of liberty. Away, then, with quacks and organizers! A way with their rings, chains, hooks, and pincers! Away with their artificial systems! Away with the whims of governmental administrators, their socialized projects, their centralization, their tariffs, their government schools, their state religions, their free credit, their bank monopolies, their regulations, their restrictions, their equalization by taxation, and their pious moralizations! | | Max Weber | Science as a vocation | | | Frederic Bastiat | Economic Sophisms | | | Aldous Huxley | A Brave New World | | | George Orwell | | | | Bertrand Russell | A History of Western Philosophy | | | Karl Popper | The Open Society and Its Enemies | | | Charles T. Munger | Poor Charlie's Almanack | | | William Stanley Jevons | The coal question | |
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