#rather

The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

#alienation #away #basic #collectivism #countries

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#banquet #birth #bread #control #diminish

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator. ↗

— Rand Paul

#first #floor #government #handicapped #him

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care. ↗

— Ron Paul

#before #care #early #government #had

When I had money in the past, I would always travel rather than spend it on big apartments or cars. And I still feel exactly the same way. ↗

— Robin Wright Penn

#big #cars #exactly #feel #had

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives. ↗

— Mike Peters

#choice #dictating #how #live #lives

I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it. ↗

— Tom Peters

#find #going #got #i #know

I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#art #avenue #completely #feel #fifth

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. ↗

— Plato

#cunning #justice #knowledge #ought #rather

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort. ↗

— Plato

#always #any #bettered #curse #immediate