Marino Linić > Marino's Quotes

“Dominique, it’s abnormal to feel so strongly about anything." “That’s the only way I can feel. Or not at all.”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.”
― Ayn Rand

“Cthulhu may swim slowly. But he only swims left. Isn’t that interesting?”
― Mencius Moldbug, A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations

“The underlying foundation of life in New England was one of profound, unutterable, and therefore unuttered, melancholy, which regarded human existence itself as a ghastly risk, and, in the case of the vast majority of human beings, an inconceivable misfortune.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oldtown Folks

“In our own time the whole of Greece has been subject to a low birth rate and a general decrease of the population, owing to which cities have become deserted and the land has ceased to yield fruit, although there have neither been continuous wars nor epidemics...For as men had fallen into such a state of pretentiousness, avarice, and indolence that they did not wish to marry, or if they married to rear the children born to them, or at most as a rule but one or two of them, so as to leave these in affluence and bring them up to waste their substance, the evil rapidly and insensibly grew.”
― Polybius, The Histories, Vol 6: Bks.XXVIII-XXXIX