It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law, than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
タグ: capitalism

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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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