Most of the harm in the world is done by good people, and not by accident, lapse, or omission. It is the result of their deliberate actions, long persevered in, which they hold to be motivated by high...
Isabel Paterson
Isabel Paterson (1886–1961) was a journalist, author, political philosopher, and a leading literary critic of her day. Along with Rose Wilder Lane and Ayn Rand, she is one of the three founding mothers of American libertarianism.
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Paterson’s best known work is her 1943 book The God of the Machine, which at that time was the preeminent individualist manifesto. In Reason, Stephen Cox writes: The God of the Machine remains a classic of individualist thought. But it is not a pale
Paterson’s 1933 fictional account of Marta Brown and Pauline Gardiner—two American women in Paris. Roberts Tapley, Bookman, January 1933: Abundantly garnished with good things of Mrs. Paterson’s own and good things she has gleaned here and there
