Category Archives: Quotes

Quotes from my reading which may or may not have a bit of my own commentary.

Quote of the day

While waiting for MAN OF STEEL to start, I was reading “Basic Economics” by Thomas Sowell.  I found this quote interesting in regards to supposed scarce resources.

“In some ultimate sense, the total quantity of resources must of course be declining.  However, a resource that would run out centuries after it becomes obsolete, or a thousand years after the sun grows cold, is not a serious practical problem.  If it is going to run out within some period that is a matter of practical relevance, then the rising present value of the resource whose exhaustion looms ahead will automatically force conservation, without either public hysteria or political read more

Quote of the Day

Came across this quote today in Ayn Rand’s essay titled “The Nature of Government”, found in the book “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal.”  It seems appropriate given all that is coming out of Washington these days:

“…instead of serving as the instrument of objectivity in human relationships, the government is creating a deadly, subterranean reign of uncertainty and fear, by means of non-objective laws whose interpretation is left to the arbitrary read more