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Envy cannot be our master

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy — I don’t disparage envy, but I don’t accept it as legitimately my master.

Author Greg RavenPosted on March 10, 2020Categories equalityTags Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Free competition

Free competition is worth more to society than it costs.

Author Greg RavenPosted on October 15, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories capitalismTags Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

“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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