Nathaniel Branden Quotes
We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in terms of results in the measurable form of jobs created, lives enriched, communities built, living standards raised, and poverty healed, a handful of capitalists has done infinitely more for mankind than all the self-serving politicians, academics, social workers, and religionists who march under the banner of compassion.
Branden, Nathaniel. The Art of Living Consciously: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life. Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Small business is responsible for the majority of new jobs that are created in our country.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), an organization supposedly devoted to financing poverty elimination had supported the building of a luxury 5-Star hotels in Ghana, Egypt and several other poor nations. The construction creates jobs as does the operation of the hotel, but critics complain that the impact on poverty is small compared to the size of the investment. The fancy hotels are too expensive for the local small businessmen and women to use in their commercial development. The elites and the AID givers and NGOs of course have better—and more expensive—accommodations.
She and many of the other white activists were called “do-gooders” by the Southern authorities of communities which were integration demonstration targets. The term was derogatory in the South, but Mrs. Peabody and others were proud of the term as that was exactly their purpose—to do good. Mrs. Peabody, and the wives of a number of wives of Christian Bishops, black and white, went to a restaurant in St. Augustine and requested service which was contrary to the segregation laws of Florida at the time. The women were arrested. The act of civil disobedience in integrating the restaurant was one act of a planned desegregation strategy worked out with Martin Luther King’s SCLC organization. The mature age of the women and their prominent husbands brought a great deal of newspaper coverage which is just what the demonstrators wanted. The photo is of Mrs. Peabody getting arrested. See {637404} and {637405} for more on this incident.
Nathaniel Branden was a Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer known for his work in the psychology of self-esteem. A former associate and romantic partner of Ayn Rand, Branden also played a prominent role in the 1960s in promoting Rand's philosophy, Objectivism. Rand and Branden split acrimoniously in 1968, after which Branden focused on developing his own psychological theories and modes of therapy.
