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Tag: José Ortega y Gasset

(1883-1955) Spanish philosopher

The danger of state intervention

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies.

Author Greg RavenPosted on December 5, 2014November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories socialismTags José Ortega y Gasset

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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