Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.
Isabel PatersonNo law can give power to private persons; every law transfers power from private persons to government.
Isabel PatersonTrade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.
Isabel PatersonThe philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.
Isabel PatersonMost of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high ideals toward virtuous ends... ...when millions are slaughtered, when torture is practiced, starvation enforced, oppression made a policy, as at present over a large part of the world, and as it has often been in the past, it must be at the behest of very many good people, and even by their direct action, for what they consider a worthy object.
Isabel Paterson