https://rinsland.net/tag/qotd/ Recent content in QotD on Rinsland's Corner Hugo en-US Mon, 06 May 2024 09:30:12 -0500 https://rinsland.net/3610/quote-of-the-day-2024-06-05/ Mon, 06 May 2024 09:30:11 -0500 https://rinsland.net/3610/quote-of-the-day-2024-06-05/ <p>“The capitalist engine is first and last an engine of mass production which unavoidably also means production for the masses … It is the cheap cloth, the cheap cotton and rayon fabric, boots, motorcars and so on that are the typical achievements of capitalist production, and not as a rule improvements that would mean much to the rich man. Queen Elizabeth owned silk stockings. The capitalist achievement does not typically consist in providing more silk stockings for queens but in bringing them within reach of factory girls.” ~Joseph Schumpeter, a famous economist who served as Austrian minister of finance in 1919.</p> https://rinsland.net/3602/quote-of-the-day-2024-24-3/ Sun, 24 Mar 2024 17:02:34 -0500 https://rinsland.net/3602/quote-of-the-day-2024-24-3/ <p>Man, Sub-creator, the refracted light through whom is splintered from a single White to many hues, and endlessly combined in living shapes that move from mind to mind. Though all the crannies of the world we filled with Elves and Goblins, though we dared to build Gods and their houses out of dark and light, and sowed the seed of dragons, ’twas our right (used or misused). The right has not decayed. We make still by the law in which we’re made. -JRR Tolkien</p> https://rinsland.net/2912/quote-of-the-day-4-5-2022/ Tue, 05 Apr 2022 07:10:26 -0500 https://rinsland.net/2912/quote-of-the-day-4-5-2022/ <p>“The hatred that men bear to privilege increases in proportion as privileges become fewer and less considerable, so that democratic passions would seem to burn most fiercely just when they have least fuel. I have already given the reason for this phenomenon. When all conditions are unequal, no inequality is so great as to offend the eye, whereas the slightest dissimilarity is odious in the midst of general uniformity; the more complete this uniformity is, the more insupportable the sight of such a difference becomes. Hence it is natural that the love of equality should constantly increase together with equality itself, and that it should grow by what it feeds on.” ~ Alexis de Tocqueville, 1840</p> https://rinsland.net/2865/quote-of-the-day-10-21-2021/ Thu, 21 Oct 2021 07:29:34 -0500 https://rinsland.net/2865/quote-of-the-day-10-21-2021/ <p>“But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.” ~John Stuart Mill</p> https://rinsland.net/2503/quote-of-the-day-oct-21/ Wed, 21 Oct 2020 15:08:33 -0500 https://rinsland.net/2503/quote-of-the-day-oct-21/ <p>“<em>But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.</em>” ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty</p>