If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you … - Isabel Paterson

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Sight is the least sensual of all the senses. And we strain ourselves to see, see, see--everything, everything through the eye, inone mode of objective curiosity.

Isabel Paterson

If you hear some bad collectivistic notions, chances are that they came from [modern] liberals. But if you hear or read something outrageously, god-awfully collectivistic, you may be sure that the author is a conservative.

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A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

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There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

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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.

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People mostly do as they like, and that would be fine if they'd let other people do the same.

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Freedom is dangerous. Possibly crawling on all fours might be safer than standing upright, but we like the view better up there.

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