Quotes of the Week

From the Light:
“The way to achieve victory is not by seizing the state, or violently overthrowing it, but quietly confronting it with a reality already on the ground: the reality that a rapidly expanding share of its laws are either no longer enforceable or cost more to enforce than it’s worth.”
Kevin Carson

“A permanent end to the state can only be achieved by attacking the force that gives rise to it. That force is uncontrolled fear. In the mind of a healthy individual empathy/love is far stronger than fear and can easily contain it. The fear that gives rise to and sustains the state can only be conquered by ending the underlying self-inflicted suffering of victimhood thinking from which it spawns. This is what must be done by those who truly wish to strike at the root of evil.”
Alex Ryan

“It’s either foreign intervention and retaliatory terrorism or nonintervention and security. There’s no third way.”
Sheldon Richman

“Here's the system we're sentenced to live under, concisely described: Steal hundreds of billions from taxpayers, and you're a public servant; refuse to permit your legitimately earned wealth to be stolen from you, and you're a felon.”
Will Grigg

“Mutual aid efforts that provide assistance based on consent are superior to authoritarian efforts to sustain that which is to be exploited. While authoritarians try to claim for their own what others have made, anarchists create grassroots networks of support and resistance.”
Darian Worden

“Liberty doesn't originate with politicians. Whatever the future holds, I don't want to simply be ‘freer than the USSR‘; I want to be free. But that won't happen until Americans understand that liberty begins and ends with them, and subsequently refuse to partake in gang warfare via the voting booth.”
Trevor Bothwell

“Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a vast scale? What are criminal gangs but petty kingdoms?
A gang is a group of men under the command of a leader, bound by a compact of association, in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy wins so many recruits from the ranks of the demoralized that it acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues peoples, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of `kingdom,’ which is conferred on it in the eyes of the world, not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity.”
St Augustine

“Our civilization is overly-politicized; grounded in the principle of violence. The state is the institutionalization of violence. But force is antithetical to life, for it makes life be what it does not choose to be; compels it to act contrary to the pursuit of its self-interests. The state wars against the spontaneity and autonomy that define life and make societies prosper.”
Butler Shaffer

“I do not believe in the institution of government nor do I give a damn about a piece of paper written and signed by a bunch of white male racists over 200 years ago. An agreement is only an agreement among those people who sign it—and any other people (if there are such) who voluntarily accept those people as their representatives. Since I fall into neither of those two categories, Charmin toilet paper (with aloe vera, of course)
means more to me than the U.S. Constitution. In fact, the U.S. Constitution has no meaning to me.”
David Kramer

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From the Darkness:

"Mobilizing the country's armed forces and making war to acquire territory is the only way a country can climb out of its decadence and into a stable period of growth and prosperity."
Guy Odom

"We have gone to the restaurant. We have eaten the meal. Now the only question is whether we will pay the check. We simply must do so."
Sen. Max Baucus, Finance Committee Chairman, on the Democrat’s proposal to increase the national debt limit by $1.9 trillion.

“This is purely a matter of physics and geometry: the whole world can not be there.”
Anonymouns U.S. military official, commenting on why a Doctors Without Borders plane carrying 12 tons of vital medical equipment had been prevented from landing on three occasions in Port-au-Prince since Sunday evening.

“…..terror -- meaning killing and robbery and coercion by people who do not have state authority and go beyond national borders…..”
Bill Clinton, defining terrorism.

“Indirect taxes are small taxes imposed on specified products or transactions. Typically, the tax is paid by the consumer or user of the product or transaction, collected by the retailer and forwarded to the taxation authority. Once in place, they are compulsory. The objective is to raise revenue or, in the cases of taxes on arms and excise duties on tobacco and alcohol, to discourage (excess) consumption of a particular product. In the latter cases, there are likely to be positive effects in terms of health. Taxes such as those for airline travel can contribute to addressing communicable diseases. All these, and others such as a digital tax, can be considered humanitarian contributions which can together provide significant resources for the health needs of the world. The digital tax involves a charge on traffic over the Internet. It was first discussed in the 1990s, and various proponents have suggested different versions. Examples include a tax of 1 US cent on every 100 e-mails of 10 KB sent, a charge per number of e-mail messages (e.g. 10 cents per 1000 messages).”
From a new study published by the United Nations’ World Health Organization.