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• The great truth is that women actually like men, and men can never believe it.

  Isabel Paterson

  Believe, Men, Truth Is

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• But when the good people do know, as they certainly do, that three million persons (at the least estimate) were starved to death in one year by the methods they approve, why do they still fraternize with the murderers and support the measures? Because they have been told that the lingering death of the three millions might ultimately benefit a greater number. The argument applies equally well to cannibalism.

  Isabel Paterson

  Numbers, Years, People

  Isabel Paterson (2017). “God of the Machine”, p.323, Routledge

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• The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

  Isabel Paterson

  Race, Would Be, Half

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.93, Transaction Publishers

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• Right now it is a terrible thing to be a rugged individualist; but we don't know what else to be except a feeble nonentity.

  Isabel Paterson

  Terrible, Rugged, Right Now

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• If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

  Isabel Paterson

  Years, Progress, Reactionaries

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• Trade and money, which go together in a stream of energy, inevitably wash away the enclosing walls of a society of status.

  Isabel Paterson

  Wall, Together, Energy

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “The God of the Machine”, p.50, Transaction Publishers

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• An army is a diversion of energy from the productive life of a nation.

  Isabel Paterson

  Army, Productive Life, Energy

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.30, Transaction Publishers

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• Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse or omission.

  Isabel Paterson

  Omission, People, Lapses

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.235, Transaction Publishers

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• As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.

  Isabel Paterson

  Law, Freak, Stand Alone

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.172, Transaction Publishers

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• The humanitarian wishes to be a prime mover in the lives of others. He cannot admit either the divine or the natural order, by which men have the power to help themselves. The humanitarian puts himself in the place of God.

  Isabel Paterson

  Men, Order, Wish

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

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• One genius is about all a house will hold.

  Isabel Paterson

  House, Genius

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• Leadership is obliged to justify itself daily.

  Isabel Paterson

  Justify, Obliged

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.79, Transaction Publishers

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• Money is indispensable to a long-circuit heavy load energy system. It must be used when a sufficient surplus is being produced to allow a margin for exchange, and cost of transport, over a considerable distance. Money represents a storage battery when idle, and a generalized mode of the conversion of energy when it is in motion, with a function of equating time and space.

  Isabel Paterson

  Distance, Space, Long

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.31, Transaction Publishers

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• If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

  Isabel Paterson

  Betrayal, Race, Would Be

  Isabel Paterson (1993). “God of the Machine”, p.292, Transaction Publishers

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• Not uncommonly one hears some romantic young woman say, 'Oh, I would give anything to be a writer.' But she would not; and 'anything' is not enough. One must give everything.

  Isabel Paterson

  Giving, Enough, Young

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