Stefan Zweig Quotes

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

I was just living my life, and that's what I wanted to do.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair.

My nan taught me never to put value on possessions but to value family, friends and people. I buy lovely things and enjoy them, but they don't rule me.

I'm a great believer in governments doing as little as possible and people power doing the rest, so I'm in favour of governments being there to govern in the areas that need governing, not a whole heap of other things that they stick their sticky fingers into.

One of the eternal truths is that happiness is created and developed in peace, and one of the eternal rights is the individual's right to live.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

Prosperity is a parent to peace.

When neither their property nor their honor is touched, the majority of men live content.

A libertarian is a person who believes that no one has the right, under any circumstances, to initiate force against another human being, or to advocate or delegate its initiation. Those who act consistently with this principle are libertarians, whether they realize it or not. Those who fail to act consistently with it are not libertarians, regardless of what they may claim.

I'm not looking for anybody or anything. I'm just living my life.

My life... I'm really happy with what I've got. If I get more things, I will be happy, but if not, I won't be frustrated.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

Libertarians secretly worried that ultimately someone will figure out the whole of their political philosophy boils down to “Get Off My Property.” News flash: This is not really a big secret to the rest of us.

Excellently observed", answered Candide; "but let us cultivate our garden.

Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.

A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath.

I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage, with my books, my family, and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post which any human power can give.

Americans don't like the way Washington operates. They don't like Washington. They don't like the way things are going.

America is fed up with political correctness, and it is fed up with government that doesn't work. It's fed up with weakness being interpreted as wisdom.

Govern wisely, and as little as possible

When Alexander the Great visited the philosopher Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for him, Diogenes is said to have replied: ‘Yes, stand a little less between me and the sun.’ It is what every citizen is entitled to ask of his government.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.