Sunday, January 17, 2021

Quotes of the Week

Enlightened insights taken from the past week’s reading:

"President Trump should not urge us all to 'come together.' Instead, he should support secession. States and communities that support Trump are too far apart from supporters of the Biden-Harris BLM camorra to live in a united country. 'Bear not the yoke with unbelievers. For what participation hath justice with injustice? Or what fellowship hath light with darkness? (2 Corinthians 6:14)'."

Lew Rockwell

"You can choose to be compliant with your own will; you can choose to be compliant with your Creator’s will; you can choose to be compliant with the most trendy, base trends of pop culture; you can choose to be compliant with the most twisted sycophants and sociopaths of media and culture; you can choose to be compliant with the most perverse laws and orders of government. That choice is 100% yours. The easy choice is to make no choice, no decision, no commitment, but unless you are as spineless as they come, if you make that easy choice, boy will you hate yourself and where you end up."

Allan Stevo

"He who is afraid to anger or offend is not yet a man."

Stephen Baskerville

"Negative interest rates discourage saving. Once again, saving is what builds capital. Without capital you wind up as an empty shell—Rome in 450 A.D., or Detroit today—lots of wonderful but empty buildings and no economic activity. Worse, it forces people to desperately put their money in all manner of idiotic speculations in an effort to stay ahead of inflation. They wind up chasing the bubbles the funny money creates.

Let me re-emphasize something: in order for science and technology to advance you need capital. Where does capital come from? It comes from people producing more than they consume and saving the difference. Debt, on the other hand, means you’re living above your means. You’re either consuming the capital others have saved, or you’re mortgaging your future.

Zero and negative interest rate policies, and the creation of money out of nowhere, are actually destructive of civilization itself. It makes the average guy feel that he’s not in control of his own destiny. He starts believing that the State, or luck, or Allah will provide for him. That attitude is typical of people from backward parts of the world—not Western Civilization."

Doug Casey

"Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth."

Paolo Bacigalupi

"HL Mencken was right about believing in liberty, but not believing in it enough to force it upon anyone. Just as we oppose foreign interventionism, we should stop trying to remake those US cities and states which are beyond help. We need to recognize that tens of millions of Americans are likely beyond persuasion in the direction of sensible political or economic views. Millions more are committed socialists who would readily agree to nationalize whole industries and radically redistribute property. By definition these are unreasonable views, so how does one use persuasion where reason is lacking?

Post-persuasion America requires us to thinking about how to separate and unyoke ourselves politically from DC. Our immediate future lies in hard federalism, which dovetails with the soft secession which is happening already as millions of Americans vote with their feet. Mobilization and separation, not persuasion, is the way forward."

Jeff Deist

"Periods of tyranny come from the Right and they come from the Left. This one is coming mainly from the Left with its delusional Marxist utopian fantasies. But when all is said and done, all tyrannies, no matter their disguise, no matter their brand of rhetoric, come from power at the top. And power at the top has no political ideology. Ideology is merely a tool for propaganda and mind control.

Liberty and freedom are not ideological, either. They are the outcome of thousands of years of struggle. Their adherents know individual responsibility is a key corollary. The individual is free to live his life in any way he wants to, as long as he doesn’t encroach on another’s freedom."

Jon Rappoport

"American 'moral speak' is Washington’s language for justifying the mass murder of other countries, their peoples, infrastructures, and prospects, producing millions of displaced peoples from eight countries since the Clinton regime and millions of orphans and widows.  And now this criminal state has stolen an election from its own people.

This is how America will henceforth be seen both at home and abroad.  Its moral authority is gone and its soft power with it.  Its hard military power doesn’t stack up to the Russians’, much less to the combined hard power of the American Establishment’s three chosen enemies—Russia, China, and Iran.  Eastern Europeans are already rethinking their alignment with a sexually and culturally degenerate West.  Every country is tired of American threats and of Washington’s belief that US law takes precedence over their own law."

Paul Craig Roberts

"Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people’s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble – yes, gamble – with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital' interests."

Albert Camus

"Here's a question for those Leftist politicians: Why do you continue to try to disarm Americans — or restrict which weapons they can own — and deny them their ability to defend themselves against thugs, robbers or oppressive government while you have armed al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists in Libya and Syria, giving them automatic weapons, rocket launchers, etc., which Americans cannot own without jumping through legal hoops, if at all?

The very idea that the elected class would think terrorists are more deserving of possessing weapons than law-abiding American citizens is not just downright weird; it's criminal."

Bob Livingston

"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Martin Luther King, JR

"Most everything being told to the American citizens are nothing more than lies, deceit, and propaganda. There is no pandemic, but there is a plot to take over the entire country, destroying any and all normal aspects of life. The destruction of the human spirit and psyche is happening before our eyes, and many of the things planned by the controlling class will cause the annihilation of this economic system and the loss of freedom. The agenda to gain control over the people is moving forward at lightening speed, and this looks to be the final push toward achieving a communistic style society with the controlling interests dominating the very minds of its subjects."

Gary D. Barnett

"There are cameras everywhere in America today.  When that bomb went off in Nashville the Lying Media Scum reported that there were probably hundreds of cameras in that small neighborhood alone.  In addition to all the cameras on and in buildings, everyone on the planet has a camera phone.  As far as I can tell, the places where votes are counted are the only places in America, with minor exceptions, that are camera free.  The Las Vegas casinos seem to do a pretty good job at policing fraud with cameras, by contrast, because they have a financial incentive to eliminate fraud.  Politics is just the opposite:  fraud pays."

Tom DiLorenzo

"What we call the market is really a democratic process involving millions, and in some markets billions, of people making personal decisions that express their preferences. When you hear someone say that he doesn't trust the market, and wants to replace it with government edicts, he's really calling for a switch from a democratic process to a totalitarian one."

Walter Williams

"Unable to dislodge Donald Trump by the Russiagate hoax or the malicious soft coup impeachment process, his sworn enemies, using COVID-19 as their pretext, have turned to the destruction of the economy by repressive lockdowns, creating mass unemployment and annihilation of small businesses, thus fracturing civil society. Elite elements within the Democrats, Big Tech, the deep state, and their complacent, compliant regime media pawns, have turned to an age-old psy/war strategy to be wielded as an ax against the president, insidiously using the weaponized corpse of the slain George Floyd as the initial rationale for these riots and insurrections. You can be sure they will now utilize the slain military veteran Ashli Babbit as their new prop."

Charles Burris


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