A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.
Americans took a great deal too much credit for creating wealth, when most of the time they had really just been living off natural bounty unprecedented in the history of the world.
English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.
In every society, the artists will be the ones who set themselves up as contrary to whatever the society expects.
Is human nature basically good or evil? No economist can embark upon his profession without considering this question, and yet they all seem to. And they all seem to think human nature is basically good, or they wouldn't be surprised by the effects of deregulation.
Love is a general emotion. Marriage is exactingly specific.
Men are competent in groups that mimic the playground, incompetent in groups that mimic the family.
One of the profound effects of economics in our day is that the people with the money and the power have embraced the guilt-free, external-less, everything-will-turn-out-okay-in-the-end philosophy of economics in order to justify their own evil works. And the economists, for the most part, have sucked up to that money.
The fundamental condition of childhood is powerlessness.
The thing about Republicans is that they don't care so much about respect, but they love fear, at least in others.
The urge for revenge is a fact of marital life.
Whether or not virtue was in fact its own reward, it did seem like sin was its own punishment.
Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for.
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