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The more freedom, the less violence. Conversely, the more power at the center, the more violence. In short: power kills.
- — R.J. Rummel
We have become accustomed to the idea that a natural system like the human body or an ecosystem regulates itself. To explain the regulation, we look for feedback loops rather than a central planning and directing body. But somehow our intuitions about self-regulation without central direction do not carry over to the artificial systems of human society.
- — Herbert Simon
If a nation could not prosper without the enjoyment of perfect liberty and perfect justice, there is not in the world a nation which could ever have prospered.
- — Adam Smith
No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.
- — Immanuel Kant
I think the terror most people are concerned with is the IRS.
- — Malcolm Forbes
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- — H.L. Mencken
Liberty is liberty, not equality or fairness or justice or human happiness or a quiet conscience.
- — Isaiah Berlin
In republican governments, men are all equal; equal they are also in despotic governments: in the former, because they are everything; in the latter, because they are nothing.
- — Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brède et de Montesquieu
Democracy, too, is a religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
- — H.L. Mencken
A little girl in a school in USSR was asked to use "communist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat just had a litter of kittens and they are all communists."
A month later the same little girl was asked to use the word "capitalist" in a sentence. She said, "My cat had a litter of kittens and now they are capitalists."
The teacher was shocked and ask what had happened to the kittens. The little girl responded, "Well they have opened their eyes now!"
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