Mastodawn

@bontchev I've been thinking about "the end of geography" recently and I think that this quote is sort of in the same vein? Like (paraphrasing) "no country with a McDonald's wages war on its neighbours" sort of thing?

Anyway, I looked up the quote and apparently Bastiat never said it?

https://www.econlib.org/archives/2013/08/when_goods_dont.html

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When Goods Don't Cross Borders, Armies Will - Econlib

One quote that Bastiat lovers–I include myself–love to cite is Bastiat’s famous quote, “When goods don’t cross borders, armies will.” There’s one little problem with the quote: he never said it. He should have said it. One can imagine, with Bastiat’s penchant for the pithy, that he would have said it. But in a thorough […]

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WIST Quotations 22h ago

A quotation from Mark Twain

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon — laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution — these can lift at a colossal humbug — push it a little — weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. You are always fussing and fighting with your other weapons. Do you ever use that one? No; you leave it lying rusting. As a race, do you ever use it at all? No; you lack sense and the courage.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10

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Twain, Mark - Story (1916), The Mysterious Stranger, ch. 10 | WIST Quotations

For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon -- laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution -- these can lift at a colossal humbug -- push it a little -- weaken it a little, century by century; but only laughter can blow it to rags and atoms…

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Chartrand Saint-Louis 2d ago

Les problèmes que je n’ai jamais eus
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« Je suis très âgé. J'ai eu beaucoup de problèmes. La plupart d'entre eux ne se sont jamais concrétisés. »
– Mark Twain, dans : Ezra Bayda, Vivre le Zen, Marabout, 2014, p. 166

Wisdom in Space 2d ago

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain

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Wisdom in Space 4d ago

Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.
-- Mark Twain

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WIST Quotations 5d ago

A quotation from Mark Twain

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging.

Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
Dictation (1907-07-30)

More about this quote: wist.info/twain-mark/69430/

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Twain, Mark - Dictation (1907-07-30) | WIST Quotations

A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch-digging. In Benjamin Griffin and Harriet Elinor Smith, eds., Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 3 (pub. 2015). Also recorded in Bernard DeVoto, ed., Mark Twain in Eruption, "The Last Visit to England," ch. 1 "White and Red" (1940).…

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