Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"If progress is real despite our whining, it is not because we are born any healthier, better, or wiser than infants were in the past, but because we are born to a richer heritage, born on a higher level of that pedestal which the accumulation of knowledge and art raises as the ground and support of our being."

Will Durant

"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

George Orwell

"Government can guarantee you a job, healthcare, etc., but then they will make the call on what that means, what’s good for you. Your own wishes aren’t important. If daddy brings home the bacon, daddy makes the rules. And to enforce the exponentially expanding will of government, the police-state necessarily grows, choking Liberty and filling the prisons. In the oppressive climate, one is left to wonder if the only equality to be realized is found in the chains around one’s ankles."

Ryan Thorson

"Socialism is by no means limited to a political system. The definition of socialism under any masquerade is the pseudo-morality of groupism over the individual."

Bob Livingston

"Economic worth is not an opinion that you have about yourself nor is it an opinion that someone else has about you. It's a social construct generated by your ability to influence other people's behavior through strategic forms of value-creation."

T.K. Coleman

"The entire world looks at America and Israel, and what does the world see? Two countries, both the result of exterminating the native populations, distrusted and universally hated, both of which survive by purchasing the governments of other countries and by endless lies that describe everyone but themselves and their vassals as evil criminals that must be destroyed."

Paul Craig Roberts

"I have said it before and it deserves another mention, politicians are violence brokers and nothing more and the western variety of the disease through vote counting and democratic deliberation yields the slow roll to the cannibals’ pot for every human trapped in the political boundaries of the latest franchise

You can’t eradicate cannibalism by eating the cannibals; there is no better analog for what voting is."

Bill Buppert

"Taxpayers do not sign any contract agreeing to pay the government taxes for 'services rendered.' Consent is not required. In matters of taxation, one either hands over tax money to the State or the state throws the tax 'cheat' in a cage. Taxation is nothing more than the violent expropriation of one’s private property to the State. Moreover, through taxation, the State claims legitimate ownership over the property of every potential taxpayer.  If we take this to its natural conclusion, taxation is just any other form of robbery, and tax evasion is simply resisting theft."

TJ Roberts

"‘Hateful’ is the regime's demonization word for people with dissident views, and intended to foreclose any actual engagement with their positions."

Tom Woods

"Only one thing can conquer war — that liberal attitude which can see nothing in war but destruction and annihilation, and which can never wish to bring about a war, because it regards war as injurious even to the victors."

Ludwig von Mises

"All the races are 'racist,' to be candid. It’s genetically programmed into humans to fear alien groups. It’s a result of the competition for scarce resources, over millions of years of evolution. Racism may be unsavory, but it’s entirely natural. The only solution is to view people as individuals, first and foremost. Looking for political solutions against racism only makes things worse, not better."

Doug Casey

"The science of mine and thine — the science of justice — is the science of all human rights; of all a man’s rights of person and property; of all his rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is the science which alone can tell any man what he can, and cannot, do; what he can, and cannot, have; what he can, and cannot, say, without infringing the rights of any other person. It is the science of peace; and the only science of peace; since it is the science which alone can tell us on what conditions mankind can live in peace, or ought to live in peace, with each other."

Lysander Spooner