Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"What we really need to understand is that all modern wars are financed by bank credit, not by income taxes or any other taxes. All governments and all systems are and were financed by bank credit. Nazism, fascism, communism, and democracy are all products of bank credit. All are equal and all are the same. Imagine all the dead soldiers on both sides who died for the same thing and because of the same thing — bank credit. Bank credit is another name for the New World Order. It is the true name of the New World Order."

Bob Livingston

"The State conducts all of its foreign (and domestic) affairs while assuring and teaching us that it is looking out for our peace and security. It assures and teaches us that it has a right to act on our behalf, which we have delegated to it and which we influence through periodic elections. The fact that many of us believe this story doesn’t make it true. Belief in fairy tales doesn’t make them true stories.

The fact is that the State has no right to act on our behalf, and we know that it has no such right because each of the premises that supposedly imply such a right is false. If we do not act as a people voluntarily and do not choose the State to protect us, and if we prefer other arrangements to be freely chosen by us, even as the State represses them, then we cannot possibly, of our own accord, be delegating the State as our protector."

Michael Rozeff

"Let me say this is clearly as possible — presidents do not matter. They do not matter in terms of any important change in American society. Those great changes are always made either by a contingent of free people fighting relentlessly for good, or by a contingent of power mongers manipulating the halls of government from behind the scenes. In the end, like most other presidents, Trump is irrelevant, unless you view him as a pied piper leading conservatives down a terrible path."

Brandon Smith

"The state has slyly and systematically distracted the citizenry from the fact that the true origin of social conflicts and evils lies with the government itself, by creating scapegoats everywhere ('capitalism,' the desire for profit, private property). The state then places the blame for problems on these scapegoats and makes them the target of popular anger and of the severest and most emphatic condemnation from moral and religious leaders, almost none of whom has seen through the deception nor dared until now to denounce that in this century, statolatry represents the chief threat to religion, morality, and thus, human civilization."

Jesus Huerta de Soto

"The development of a kind of bureaucratic absolutism is not limited, however, to totalitarian countries. A mild form of professional absolutism is evident in every country in the mediating class of civil servants who bridge the gap between man and his rulers. Such a bureaucracy may be used to help or to harm the citizens it should serve. 

It is important to realize that a peculiar, silent form of battle goes on in all of the countries of the world — under every form of government — a battle between the common man and the government apparatus he himself has created. In many places we can see that this governing tool, which was originally meant to serve and assist man, has gradually obtained more power than it was intended to have. 

Governmental techniques are no different from any other psychological strategy; the deadening hold of regimentation can take mental possession of those dedicated to it, if they are not alert. And this is the intrinsic danger of the various agencies that mediate between the common man and his government. It is a tragic aspect of life that man has to place another fallible man between himself and the attainment of his highest ideals."

Joost Meerloo

"There’s a macabre equivalency between our various overseas war operations and the school shootings that are now a routine feature of American daily life. The purposes are equally obscure and the damage is just as impressive — many lives ruined for no good reason. But consider more lives are lost every year in highway crashes than in the Mexican War of the 1840s and more Americans are dying each year lately of opioid overdoses than the entire death toll of the Vietnam War. America’s soul is at war with its vaunted way-of-life."

James Howard Kunstler

"The notion that government can produce something people value enough to buy, or that it can 'partner' with entrepreneurs who do, is as silly as Hillary Clinton’s excuses for losing the election. Our interactions in the market, whether buying or selling, are voluntary. But government is force — physical, brutal, lethal force. It may glorify itself with museums and marble monuments while prattling about patriotism, but its essence is raw, physical compulsion. If you don’t obey politicians and bureaucrats, if you ignore their diktats, they will arrest you. If you resist that arrest, and continue resisting, they’ll increase the volume of force until they ultimately kill you. Behind every law and regulation, no matter how innocuous or beneficial they may seem, lies the same potentially lethal force."

Becky Akers

"Instead of making an honest living like Stormy Daniels, Rudy [Giuliani] has been a politician for most of his life. In other words, he was the lowest of the low. He was someone whom no one should ever respect. He was someone who had no credibility. He, like all politicians, sold himself for cash, gifts, favors, or campaign contributions."

Laurence Vance