This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Emil G. Hirsch, fully Emil Gustav Hirsch
Wherever the right of property clashes with a duty toward humanity, the former has not credentials that are entitled to consideration.
Consideration | Duty | Humanity | Property | Right | Wisdom |
Every man wishes to pursue his occupation and to enjoy the fruits of his labors and the produce of his property in peace and safety, and with the least possible expense. When these things are accomplished, all the objects for which government ought to be established are answered.
Government | Man | Occupation | Peace | Property | Wisdom | Wishes | Government |
Although the exact number may vary, the Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people. But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!
Awareness | Means | People | Property | Wisdom | Awareness |
The truth of an idea is not a stagnant property in it. Truth happens to an idea. It becomes true, is made true by events. Its verity is in fact an event, a process: the process namely of its verifying itself, its veri-fication. Its validity is the process of its valid-ation.
Juan Manuel, Prince of Villena
He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have.
Manilius, fully Marcus Manilius NULL
Every one is poorer in proportion as he has more wants, and counts not what he has, but wishes only for what he has not.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German Philosopher, Socialist and Friedrich Engels
It has been objected that upon the abolition of private property all work will cease and universal laziness will overtake us. According to this, bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything do not work.
Idleness | Laziness | Nothing | Property | Society | Will | Wisdom | Work | Society |
Karl Marx (1818-1883) German Philosopher, Socialist and Friedrich Engels
The distinguishing feature of Communism is not the abolition of property generally, but the abolition of bourgeois property. By modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products that is based on class antagonisms, on the exploitation of the many by the few.
Niccolò Machiavelli, formally Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
Men are more ready to offend one who desires to be beloved than one who wishes to be feared.
Reading affords the opportunity to everyone - the poor, the rich, the humble, the great - to spend as many hours as he wishes in the company of the noblest men and women that the world has ever known.