Top 15 John Buchanan Robinson Quotes

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people; but it is always your own happiness you seek.

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest.

At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.

Not an old woman that buys a paper of pins, without yielding a part of the price to the banks as interest!

Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.

Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

You are forever alone.

Sometimes, instead of purchasing a commodity out and out, people want to buy only the use of it, for a longer or shorter period. The price paid for such temporary use is commonly called hire.

Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price.

In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.