Andrew Allison > Andrew's Quotes

“In the field of justice, man's will is all; men can move mountains, if only men so decide.”
― Murray N. Rothbard, Egalitarianism as a Revolt Against Nature and Other Essays

“It is his incurable illness to regard the accidental as necessary.”
― Johann Gottlieb Fichte, The Closed Commercial State

“The act is its own reward; do not expect applause. You must be willing to keep writing in the absence of any evidence that anyone is reading. And no use complaining, either, since no one asked you to do it in the first place. The rewards of writing sentences are real, but they are long-deferred and mostly unconfirmed.”
― Joe Moran, First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life

“I set out to be a reformer, but only became the historian of decline.”
― Ludwig von Mises

“Reason directs those who are truly pious and philosophical to honour and love only what is true, declining to follow traditional opinions, if these be worthless. For not only does sound reason direct us to refuse the guidance of those who did or taught anything wrong, but it is incumbent on the lover of truth, by all means, and if death be threatened, even before his own life, to choose to do and say what is right.”
― The Church Fathers, The Complete Ante-Nicene & Nicene and Post-Nicene Church Fathers Collection