It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood

By Consequence I Hold That No One Ever Did, Or Can Do, Anything For "society."... Comte Invented The Term Altruism As An Antonym For Egoism, And It Found Its Way At Once Into Everyone's Mouth, Although It Is Utterly Devoid Of Meaning, Since It Points To Nothing That Ever Existed In Mankind; This Hybrid Or Rather This Degenerate Form Of Hedonism Served Powerfully To Invest Collectivism's Principles With A Specious Moral Sanction, And Collectivists Naturally Made The Most Of It.

Americans Have A Strange Notion That The Ordinary Laws Of Economics Do Not Apply To Them. So Doubtless They Will Think They Are Prosperous If The Boom Starts, And That Deficits And Indebtedness Are Merely Signs Of How Prosperous They Are.

It Is Unfortunately None Too Well Understood That, Just As The State Has No Money Of Its Own, So It Has No Power Of Its Own.

The Simple Truth Is That Our Businessmen Do Not Want A Government That Will Let Business Alone. They Want A Government They Can Use.

Considered Now As A Possession, One May Define Culture As The Residuum Of A Large Body Of Useless Knowledge That Has Been Well And Truly Forgotten.