Quotes of the Week

From the Light:

“The fall of communism and subsequent neoliberal revolution amounted, in practice, to the collapse of a wall encircling the Soviet bloc, and its replacement by a set of corporate walls surrounding the entire planet.”
Kevin Carson

“The US has violently invaded and taken over a country to which “we” are unwanted, and no wonder. People do not want to be ruled by armed troopers alien in religion, language, history, and ethnicity.”
Lew Rockwell

“The economic incentives provided by private competitive markets where people are left free to make their own choices make bountiful feasts possible."
Benjamin Powell

"‘Finishing the job’ and ‘staying the course’ - they mean the same thing - you can take that to the bank."
Steve Watson

“The military always advertises that it wants the best and the brightest, but the first thing they do is try to break you down and then reprogram you. They want to reprogram you into a person that will follow orders without question; something tantamount to a frontal lobotomy that leaves subjects unable to think for themselves. Well then why do they need the best and the brightest if they are not meant to think for themselves? Given the chaos of battle, to strive to have a force that is not expected to think for themselves is not only ridiculous but dangerous as well yet the military, under the guise of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), regularly prosecutes soldiers who had the courage, intellect and wisdom to do what needed to be done in the field to preserve lives even though they weren’t told to do it. That’s called ‘disobeying a direct order’ from some arrogant, bonehead hundreds or thousands of miles away.”
Don Cooper

“Belief in minarchism is nothing more than belief in the containable and non-threatening nature of a tiger cub.”
B.R. Merrick

“No person can ever legitimately claim the name "libertarian" without first curing oneself of the obsessive-compulsive disease of power lust, commonly known as ‘initiation of force.’ ”
Garry Reed

“It is a special danger to liberty and society when national powers are developed. These are powers in which the national leadership directly controls or influences individual citizens, while bypassing or circumventing other local sources of governance and influence such as parents, families, churches, schools, and local governments.”
Michael Rozeff

“If there’s a God, and if that God is the one the Bible talks about, I rather suspect that He’s still an anarchist and waiting for His people to puzzle out the lesson He tried to teach them so many years ago.”
Thomas L. Knapp

“This peculiar institution known as "the State" is, despite its fervent and often eloquent press releases, overrated, overpriced, and hugely misused. It is overrated in that its necessity, which has been trumpeted by almost all writers on the subject and most especially by the State itself, succumbs to analysis with very little remaining.… The State is misused in that it continually arrogates to itself the right to rule over our very lives as well as our fortunes and our liberties and has all too often (indeed, nearly always, in historical retrospect) ruled to the extent of murdering, torturing, and incarcerating or exiling, as well as robbing.”
Jan Narveson

“The data, real data, over the last one thousand, ten thousand or million years, shows there is no relationship between carbon dioxide and world temperatures or climate extremes. Now we can see that actually the people in charge of data have been fiddling it, and they have been hiding the real decline in world temperatures in an attempt to keep their so called moral high ground.”
UK astrophysicist Piers Corbyn

"Here is my slogan for political reform: Replacement, not capture; then de-funding."
Gary North

“The State cannot even exist without exempting itself from moral laws against violence, theft and murder. Every rule it makes is backed by violence against those who refuse to obey. Every action it takes is made possible only by theft as, unlike the father of a family, it produces nothing.”
Paul Green

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From the Darkness:

"Supporting the care and development of children is a responsibility the military readily assumes in exchange for the loyalty of their parents in uniform."

Maj. Gen. John G. Meyer, Jr., former Commanding General of the U.S. Army's Community and Family Support Center

"It is in our strategic interests, in our national security interest to make sure that al-Qaida and its extremist allies cannot operate effectively... We are going to dismantle and degrade their capabilities and ultimately dismantle and destroy their networks... It is my intention to finish the job."
B.Obama, commenting on his unending Afghanistan war.

“There’s a doctrine called fair use, which we believe to be challenged in the courts and would bar it altogether… but we’ll take that slowly.”
Rupert Murdoch, complaining about Google linking his News Corp’s publications

"When times were darkest, President Lincoln understood that our American blessings shined brighter than ever."
B. Obama, passing on the nonsensical Thanksgiving “tradition.”

“Those who deny climate change science are irritating, but unimportant. The argument is not about if we should deal with climate change, but how we should deal with climate change.”
From “Rules of the Game" - Recommendations to the Climate Change Communications Working Group

"There is only one person in our party with the experience, political courage and unwavering commitment to the values that made our party strong – and that person is Dick Cheney."
Christopher Barron, principal organizer of the Draft Cheney for Presisdent movement.