Quotes by Isabel Paterson
“Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends.”— Isabel Paterson
“The government has nothing to give to anybody which it does not first take from somebody else.”— Isabel Paterson
“No law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.”— Isabel Paterson
“The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves.”— Isabel Paterson
“Every politically controlled educational system will inculcate the doctrine of state supremacy.”— Isabel Paterson
“The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence.”— Isabel Paterson
“A man who is not a liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a conservative at sixty has no head.”— Isabel Paterson
“All the reasoning and all the experience of history forces us to conclude that there is nothing that can be done by government which cannot be better done by the people.”— Isabel Paterson
“A 'planned economy' is a substitution of the planner's judgment for the judgment of the consumers.”— Isabel Paterson
“The whole gospel of Karl Marx can be summed up in a single sentence: Hate the man who is better off than you are.”— Isabel Paterson
“The industrialist is the precursor of the philosopher. The philosopher is the last straw. The industrialist is the one who furnishes the philosopher with the means of thinking.”— Isabel Paterson