What keeps earth air breathable? Not oxygen alone. The earth is a freer place to breathe in, every time you love without calculating a return -- every time you make your drudgeries and routines still more inefficient by stopping to experience the shock of beauty wherever it unpredictably flickers.

~ Peter Viereck

Peter Viereck Air Art Beauty Conservatism Freedom Inefficiency Love Profit Work

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is a disgrace, that two become a lawfirm, and that three or more become a congress. -John Adams

~ Sherman Edwards

Sherman Edwards Congress Government Inefficiency

When the government makes loans or subsidies to business, what it does is to tax successful private business in order to support unsuccessful private business.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Henry Hazlitt Inefficiency Inefficient Taxation Waste Wasting

I was made to learn Latin and Greek, but I resented it, being of opinion that it was silly to learn a language that was no longer spoken. I believe that all the little good I got from years of classical studies I could have got in adult life in a month.

~ Bertrand Russell

Bertrand Russell Inefficiency Useless Waste

If you are inefficient, you have a right to be afraid of the consequences.

~ Murad S. Shah

Murad S. Shah Consequences Efficiency Fear Inefficiency Right