Isabel Paterson

What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor.

— Isabel Paterson

In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.

— Isabel Paterson

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

— Isabel Paterson

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

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

— Isabel Paterson

But in reason if one man has no right to command all other men--the expedient of despotism--neither has he any right to command even one other man; nor yet have ten men, or a million, the right to command even one other man, for ten times nothing is nothing, and a million times nothing is nothing.

— Isabel Paterson

The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action.

— Isabel Paterson

The philanthropist, the politician, and the pimp are inevitably found in alliance because they have the same motives, they seek the same ends, to exist for, through, and by others.

— Isabel Paterson

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

There can be no greater stretch of arbitrary power than is required to seize children from their parents, teach them whatever the authorities decree they shall be taught, and expropriate from the parents the funds to pay for the procedure.

— Isabel Paterson

A tax-supported, compulsory educational system is the complete model of the totalitarian state.

— Isabel Paterson