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The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

The trouble with radicals is that they only read radical literature, and the trouble with conservatives is that they don't read anything

Thomas Nixon Carver
Political, Literature, Trouble

The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.

Thomas Nixon Carver
Ideas, Justice, Needs
Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.

Thomas Nixon Carver
Strong, Justice, Groups
Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

Every improvement in our conceptions of justice, as well as in the machinery for the administration of justice, whereby a closer approximation to exact justice may be secured, will make for social peace, though the mere adjudication of conflicting interests will not remove the conflicts themselves nor their cause. That lies deeper than legislatures or courts can probe.

Thomas Nixon Carver
Lying, Justice, May
Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press

People who never had enough thrift and forethought to buy and pay for property in the first place seldom have enough to keep property up after they have gained it in some other way.

Thomas Nixon Carver
People, Pay, Way
Thomas Nixon Carver (1926). “The Present Economic Revolution in the United States”

Not a single one of the doctrines of Marx has ever been accepted by any economist or any philosopher. But what of it? It was necessary that Gaiseric should convince economists or philosophers that there were sound reasons why he should capture Rome. He and his followers wanted it, and they had the power to take it.

Thomas Nixon Carver
Rome, Reason Why, Sound

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