Ww Law Quotes

Simțea milă de tovarășii lui de suferință, dar o milă lucidă și rece. La urma urmelor, aceste mari migrații umane păreau dictate de legi ale naturii, își zicea el. Deplasări periodice de mase considerabile erau probabil necesare popoarelor, cum e transhumanța pentru oi. În mod straniu, ideea îl întărea.

It's WW2 and there are wage controls in place. Instead of health care, companies decide to offer employees shoes. Having absorbed those costs, they later lobby for every company to be required to offer shoes. That calls forth regulation and monopolization of the shoe industry. Shoes are heavily subsidized. Every shoe must be approved. Producers must be domestic. They must adhere to a certain quality. They can't discriminate based on foot size or individual need. Prices rise, and some people lack shoes, so the Affordable Shoe Act forces everyone to buy into an official shoe plan or pay a fee. Here we have a perfect plan for making shoes egregiously expensive. The entire country would be consumed with the fear of being shoeless if they lose their job. The left wing calls for a single shoe provider to offer universal shoes and the right wing meekly suggests that shoe makers be permitted to sell across state lines. Meanwhile, libertarians suggest that we just forget the whole thing and let the market make and deliver shoes of every quality to anyone from anyone. Everyone screams that this is an insane and dangerous idea.

We modern civilizations have learned to recognize that we are mortal like the others. We had heard tell of whole worlds vanished, of empires foundered with all their men and all their engines, sunk to the inexplorable depths of the centuries with their gods and laws, their academies and their pure and applied sciences, their grammars, dictionaries, classics, romantics, symbolists, their critics and the critics of their critics. We knew that all the apparent earth is made of ashes, and that ashes have a meaning. We perceived, through the misty bulk of history, the phantoms of huge vessels once laden with riches and learning. We could not count them. But these wrecks, after all, were no concern of ours. Elam, Nineveh, Babylon were vague and splendid names; the total ruin of these worlds, for us, meant as little as did their existence. But France, England, Russia, these names, too, are splendid. And now we see that the abyss of history is deep enough to bury all the world. We feel that a civilization is fragile as a life.

-Ce vrei să înțelegi? Nu e nimic de înțeles, răspunse el, străduindu-se s-o liniștească. Există legi care guvernează lumea și care nu sunt făcute nici pentru, nici împotriva noastră. Când izbucnește furtuna, nu mai ai pică pe nimeni, știi că fulgerul este produsul a două sarcini electrice contrare, iar norii nu te cunosc pe tine. Nu le poți reproșa nimic. Și de altfel ar fi ridicol, n-ar înțelege. -Dar nu-i același lucru. Aici sunt fenomene pur umane. -Numai în aparență, Jeanne. Par provocate de cutare sau cutare om, de cutare împrejurare, dar se întâmplă ca în natură: după o perioadă de calm vine furtuna, care are un început, sfârșit, după care urmează alte perioade de calm mai mult sau mai puțin lungi! Spre nenorocirea noastră, ne-am născut într-un secol de furtuni, asta e tot. Se vor liniști.