“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
60 Minutes interview (2005)
“Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.”
George Washington (1732–1799) first President of the United States
1790s, Farewell Address (1796)
Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) austrian economist
Ch. VII : The Economic, Social, and Political Consequences of Interventionism § 1. The Economic Consequences https://fee.org/resources/interventionism-an-economic-analysis-2#economic <br class="br"> Interventionism: An Economic Analysis https://fee.org/resources/interventionism-an-economic-analysis/ (1940) <br class="br">Context: The unhampered market economy is not a system which would seem commendable from the standpoint of the selfish group interests of the entrepreneurs and capitalists. It is not the particular interests of a group or of individual persons that require the market economy, but regard for the common welfare. It is not true that the advocates of the free-market economy are defenders of the selfish interests of the rich. The particular interests of the entrepreneurs and capitalists also demand interventionism to protect them against the competition of more efficient and active men. The free development of the market economy is to be recommended, not in the interest of the rich, but in the interest of the masses of the people.
Iain Banks (1954–2013) Scottish writer
“State of the Art” (p. 112)
Short fiction, The State of the Art (1991)
Dick Cheney (1941) American politician and businessman
Vice Presidential Debate October 5, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3718956.stm http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6187803/ <br class="br">2000s, 2004
“I Googled myself without lubricant. I don't recommend it.”
Carrie Fisher (1956–2016) American actress, screenwriter and novelist
on The Late Show with David Letterman http://www.u.tv/Entertainment/This-week-Jane-Andrews-Katie-Price-Terry-Herbert-and-Fred-Johnson/1081bd97-6ce5-40eb-9a2a-4abfee5d48a6
“The world is a terrible place, but it’s very interesting.”
Taylor Caldwell (1900–1985) Novelist
1970s-, The Captains, the Kings, and Taylor Caldwell (1978)
“I recommend: take the vaccines. I did it. It’s good. Take the vaccines.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
Source: "Trump booed at Alabama rally after telling supporters to get vaccinated" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/22/trump-booed-at-alabama-rally-after-telling-supporters-to-get-vaccinated.html, CNBC, 22 August 2021
“I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics.”
Ernest Gellner book Anthropology and Politics
Anthropology and Politics (1995)
Context: I do not recommend any legislative action against hermeneutics. I am a liberal person opposed to all unnecessary state limitation of individual liberties. Hermeneutics between consenting adults should not, in my view, be the object of any statutory restrictions. I know, only too well, what it would entail. Hermeneutic speakeasies would spring up all over the place, smuggled Thick Descriptions would be brought in by the lorry-load from Canada by the Mafia, blood and thick meaning would clot in the gutter as rival gangs of semiotic bootleggers slugged it out in a series of bloody shoot-outs and ambushes. Addicts would be subject to blackmail. Consumption of deep meanings and its attendant psychic consequences would in no way diminsh, but the criminal world would benefit, and the whole fabric of civil society would be put under severe strain. Never!
“Here's a rule I recommend. Never practice two vices at once.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
On drinking impacting her gambling abilities
Tallulah: My Autobiography (1952)