Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"If the state did nothing but provide a police force to protect you from criminals inside its bailiwick, a military to protect you from aggressors outside its borders, and a court system to allow you to adjudicate disputes without resorting to force—I could live with that. That's reasonable enough.

The problem is that these three functions are too important to be left to the kind of people that inevitably gravitate towards government. Government workers and politicians are the kind of people that like to control other people's lives. They're natural busybodies. So even those three functions, which are the only legitimate reasons for the state, should be left to the private sector."

Doug Casey

"We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and banks destroy the economy."

Chris Hedges

"I don't want to sit on the throne. I don't want you sitting on throne. I don't want all of us to sit on the throne together. I don't want to attack anyone who's on the throne. I don't want to destroy the throne. I don't want to declare myself an enemy of the throne. I don't want to wage war against the throne. I don't even want to talk about the throne. I want to build things that undermine the very relevance and perceived necessity of the throne.

I don't want a world where division is seen as something that needs to be overcome by the 'right' central institution. I want a world where division is the very foundation for an entirely new landscape of human interaction and exchange."

T.K. Coleman

"The reality is, if Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry and their brethren were alive today, they would not be Democrats or Republicans. They would be political 'extremists' shunned by the mainstream establishment. They might even be smeared as 'conspiracy theorists.' Few nations have ever had such a historical dichotomy; those who fought for our independence, and who were revered as heroes for most of this country’s history, are anathema to our present-day leaders. They are collectively Those Who Cannot be Mentioned."

Donald Jeffries

"All governments by nature attract greedy and parasitic people. In short, these are people who have the born mentality to live off other people.

Politics and government are perfectly made for them. Keep in mind, there are a few exceptions. These (shall I call them humanoids?) have unusual qualities and attributes of personality that present them as benevolent, caring and concerned people with absolutely no hint that they wear masks that hide them as charlatans and greedy monsters. Under the masks they are Satanists devouring whom they will. Greed and aggrandizement are their silent forte."

Bob Livingston

"People who resolve to undermine a nation’s sovereignty by breaking its most fundamental of laws are willing to do virtually anything else to fulfill their desires.  It is understandable that they should want to leave their home countries and come to America so as to provide a better lives for themselves and their families. But unless it is morally permissible for one’s personal happiness to be purchased at any and all costs—unless the ends always justify the means—this doesn’t change the fact that such people disrespect America and her citizens when they invade our country."

Jack Kerwick

"Regardless of major or course of study, the main object of modern education is to sand off remnants of any cultural or historical specificity and identity that might still stick to our students, to make them perfect company men and women for a modern polity and economy that penalizes deep commitments. Efforts first to foster appreciation for 'multi-culturalism' signaled a dedication to eviscerate any particular cultural inheritance, while the current fad of 'diversity' signals thoroughgoing commitment to de-cultured and relentless homogenization."

Patrick Deneen

"Progressives love to attack conservatives as anti-science, wallowing in fake news, and culturally backwards. But who are the real denialists here? There are three institutions in American life run by gatekeepers who have stopped letting in anyone who questions their liberal script: academia, journalism, and pop culture. They use their cult-like groupthink consensus as 'proof' that science, reporting, and entertainment will always back up the Democrats. They give their most political members awards, and then say the awards make their liberal beliefs true. Worse, they are using that consensus to pull the country even further to the left, by bullying and silencing dissent from even those they've allowed in."

Stefan Molyneux

"Texas needs to protect her people from a Washington that cares little about propriety and legality, only valuing the exercise of raw power. By resigning the corrupt Union, Texas could ensure that its government would be too limited to ever attack its citizens in such a way. But if we tarry, if Texas refrains from exercising its right to self-determination, trusting in Washington solutions with a mere change in the cast, there will be more such bi-partisan outrages on the horizon."
Ryan Thorson