Open Season quotes

  • The economic miracle that has been the United States was not produced by socialized enterprises, by government-unon-industry cartels or by centralized economic planning. It was produced by private enterprises in a profit-and-loss system. And losses were at least as important in weeding out failures, as profits in fostering successes. Let government succor failures, and we shall be headed for stagnation and decline.

  • I'm a very emotional person.

  • Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.

  • A major danger in using highly abstractive methods in political philosophy is that one will succeed merely in generalizing one's own local prejudices and repackaging them as demands of reason. The study of history can help to counteract this natural human bias.

  • When the temperamental and unconventional people are not mere plagiarists of dead eccentrics, they lack, in almost every case, thehistoric sense.

  • Why is a carrot more orange than an orange?

  • These impossible women! How they do get around us! The poet was right: can't live with them, or without them!

  • Madame Schmid belonged to that large class of persons who believe that a man who engages in any form of art is necessarily a loafer.

  • Musicians ultimately are who they are, they aren't actors, so as a clipmaker you have a responsibility to protect them.

  • Self-discipline, as a virtue or an acquired asset, can be invaluable to anyone.