Famous Quotes

"The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

Albert J. Nock on Positive

More quotes about Positive

• "The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."

  Albert Einstein on Positive

• "I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other."

  Harvey Fierstein on Positive

• "Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results."

  Willie Nelson on Positive

• "Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will."

  Zig Ziglar on Positive

• "If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

  John Wooden on Positive

More quotes by Albert J. Nock

• "As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything."

• "The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner."

• "Considered now as a possession, one may define culture as the residuum of a large body of useless knowledge that has been well and truly forgotten."

• "Useless knowledge can be made directly contributory to a force of sound and disinterested public opinion."

• "The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal society can not exist unless it goes on."