Lu Xun Quotes

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

I go to my past in order to discern the future.

People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.

it’s only by studying the mistakes of the past,” Lucien said mildly, “that we can even have a future

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.

If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself.

People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there's no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and then, also, to look after our neighbours.

Conservatives say human beings are people who are primarily concerned with self-interest, and that's what they should be concerned with - self-interest and individual responsibility. They shouldn't be paying for anybody else's health care or anything else like that. As a result, government is something that should be absolutely minimal. It's not there for your overall protection and empowerment - it's not there to offer protection against disease or natural disasters or bad products or companies who sell you fallacious mortgages and so on.

The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.

There is no safe political refuge for those afraid to take responsibility for their own lives.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

Hence, the less government we have, the better,--the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formalGovernment, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

God doesn't want to change the world without you.

And so the reliance on Property, including the reliance on governments which protect it, is the want of self-reliance.

I'm such an independent person, I always want to do everything myself.

Freedon succeeds from the moment people stop looking to others to improve their lives and start taking responsibility.

The present is never the mark of our designs. We use both past and present as our means and instruments, but the future only as our object and aim.

There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual and with culture . . .

The story and study of the past, both recent and distant, will not reveal the future, but it flashes beacon lights along the way and it is a useful nostrum against despair.

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.