Interesting Quotes - Page 10

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

- Winston Churchill

A witty saying proves nothing.

- Voltaire

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

- William Shakespeare - Hamlet

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

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 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

Level 57

Apr 14, 2024

in a world too often governed by corruption and arrogance it can be hard to stay true to one's literary and philosophical principles

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..

Level 57

Apr 14, 2024

not voltaire casually shooting down the interesting quotes page