Interesting Quotes - Page 10

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The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
- Winston Churchill
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A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
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There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare - Hamlet
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Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
- Douglas Adams
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You might have noticed that I never complain about politicians. I leave that to others. Where do people think these politicians come from? They don't fall out of the sky... they're elected by American voters. This is what our system produces, folks. This is the best we can do. Let's face it, we have very little to work with. Garbage in, garbage out.
- George Carlin
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Level 66
Oct 13, 2019
„A witty saying proves nothing“, said Voltaire while saying a witty saying which proves nothing
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Level 75
Feb 7, 2020
Nothing to do with witty sayings but... "A human eye is perfectly designed therefore cannot come through evolution" said Dr Naik.

Whilst wearing spectacles.

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Level 24
Feb 18, 2020
give me a minute to process this, please and thanks
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Level 65
Dec 10, 2020
Feels a lot like the old "This sentence is false" paradox
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Level 57
Oct 23, 2019
For a future quote:

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."

Fernald Widdershins

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Level 66
Nov 8, 2019
Another good quote “Fish and Visitors stink after three days” - Benjamin Franklin
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Level 47
Mar 11, 2021
Visitors are always pleasing. Some when they arrive and others when they leave.

Paraphrase of a quote remembered late at night.

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Level 73
Dec 18, 2022
While I acknowledge I'm no expert at these things, I'd say Churchill is wrong on both accounts.

While capitalism does involve unequal sharing of blessings, a great deal of the time those blessings come with a clear and tremendous cost to others (factory workers in Mexico, for example). I would consider *this* to be the inherent vice of capitalism— not that some people get to have more than others, but that many of the blessings themselves are born from human suffering.

Meanwhile with socialism, the "virtue" itself seems untruthful, in that some of the time misery wasn't truly shared. While socialist theory proclaims to support equality, it has in practice always treated different groups of people and/or individuals themselves vastly differently from each other, at no fault of those affected. When it came to Mao's culture war and Castro's reeducation camps, some people were given a lot more misery than others under the regime, for their age or sexuality or education or what have you..