Isabel Paterson - Human Quotes

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In human affairs, all that endures is what men think.

Isabel Paterson

What kind of world does the humanitarian contemplate as affording him full scope? It could only be a world filled with breadlines and hospitals, in which nobody retained the natural power of a human being to help himself or to resist having things done to him. And that is precisely the world that the humanitarian arranges when he gets his way.

Isabel Paterson

What the past shows, by overwhelming evidence, is that the imponderables outweigh every material article in the scales of human endeavor.

Isabel Paterson

Whoever is fortunate enough to be an American citizen came into the greatest inheritance man has ever enjoyed. He has had the benefit of every heroic and intellectual effort men have made for many thousands of years, realized at last. If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.

Isabel Paterson

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

Isabel Paterson