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Last Notes npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.” - David R. Henderson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “To make a bank, was a great plot of state; invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.” - Andrew Marvell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Insofar as the individual is seeking happiness, one ought not to tender him any prescriptions as to the path to happiness: for individual happiness springs from one's own unknown laws, and prescriptions from without can only obstruct and hinder it.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “When entering a marriage, one should ask the question: do you think you will be able to have good conversations with this woman right into old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time in interaction is spent in conversation.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Not one of these nobly equipped young men has escaped the restless, exhausting, confusing, debilitating crisis of education. He feels that he cannot guide himself, cannot help himself - and then he dives hopelessly into the world of everyday life and daily routine, he is immersed in the most trivial activity possible, and his limbs grow weak and weary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Modern liberalism, however well intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions. The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.” - Ron Paul npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.” - Bertrand Russell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It’s as silly to blame social media for causing fake news as it would be to blame the internal combustion engine for causing road rage... The mass-market tabloid press fomented the Spanish-American War on dubious pretexts in 1898, and from this point on, powerful media corporations, driven to boost profits by fanning the resentments of people.” - Jim Sleeper npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The Socialists desire to create a comfortable life for as many as possible. If the enduring homeland of this comfortable life, the perfect state, were really to be attained, then this comfortable life would destroy the soil out of which great intellect and the powerful individual in general grows: by which I mean great energy. If this state is achieved mankind would have become too feeble still to be able to produce the genius.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “There is no such thing as Objective Journalism. The phrase itself is a pompous contradiction in terms.” - Hunter S. Thompson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.” - Richard Stallman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).” - Linus Torvalds npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “War made the state, and the state made war.” - Charles Tilly npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “That is part of what it means to live in an open society: you get to make your own choice about whether to acquire wisdom. We don't let government choose for us.” - Mike Godwin npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.” - William O. Douglas npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Money, first and foremost, is a medium of communication, conveying the information we call 'price'. Government control of the money supply is censorship, a violation of the First Amendment. Inflation is a lie.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “You know there are very few Marxists left in the world... they're all in American universities.” - Milton Friedman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Real G's move in silence like lasagna.” - Lil Wayne npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “An individual doesn't need to live in a free society in order to be free himself.” - Harry Browne npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “DHCP was invented by a rabid gerbil on speed.” - Kees J. Bot npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.” - Ayn Rand npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The public demands certainties. But there are no certainties.” - H. L. Mencken npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “No victor believes in chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Gun-control laws don't inhibit criminals, who rarely buy their guns in stores. But the laws do prevent you from defending yourself.” - Harry Browne npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty, than those attending too small a degree of it.” - Thomas Jefferson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It is not civilised to want other people to believe what you believe because the essence of being civilised is to possess yourself as you are, and if you possess yourself as you are you of course cannot possess any one else, it is not your business.” - Gertrude Stein npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Solvency is maintained by means of the national debt, on the principle, if you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?” - Ralph Waldo Emerson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The law is simply and solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it or of those who, for naked need, cannot obey it.” - Bertolt Brecht npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “And thus we see the government is at once both protector and predator. It is not that governments begin in virtue only to end in sin. Government begins by protecting some against others and ends up protecting itself against everyone.” - Robert LeFevre npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Anybody who tells me I can't use a program because it's not open source, go suck on rms. I'm not interested. 99% of that I run tends to be open source, but that's my choice, dammit.” - Linus Torvalds npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.” - Linus Torvalds npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Right now, drugs are ours. They aren't tainted by the government. We the people control their manufacture, distribution and consumption.” - Ross Ulbricht npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “That a theory is refutable is, frankly, not the least of its charms: this is precisely how it attracts the more refined intellects.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “To make a bank, was a great plot of state; invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.” - Andrew Marvell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” - Agatha Christie npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Bitcoin far outshines the US Dollar in every aspect as a value token for international trade.” - Rick Falkvinge npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.” - Murray Rothbard npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We rarely change an individual; and should we succeed, something else may have been accomplished, unnoticed: we may have been changed through him!” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.” - Grant Gilmore npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” - Aldous Huxley npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently.” - Kim Neunert npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I call it the state where everyone, good and bad, is a poison drinker: the state where everyone, good and bad, loses himself: the state where universal slow suicide is called - life.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they neutralize people, or they depopulate the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in disinformation. The Pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call sunshine units. Israeli murderers are called commandos, Arab commandos are called terrorists. Contra killers are called freedom fighters. Well, if crime fighters fight crime, and firefighters fight fires, what do freedom fighters fight?” - George Carlin npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “For libertarians, freedom entails the right of people to live their lives any way they choose, so long as their conduct is peaceful. For conservatives, freedom entails the right of government to do just about anything it wants, even if its conduct is violent.” - Jacob G. Hornberger npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The state wants to be absolutely the most important beast on earth; and it is believed to be so, too!” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The “neighbour” praises selflessness because it brings him advantages.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Be on your guard against the good and just! They would like to crucify those who devise their own virtue - they hate the solitary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only the unanimity of the graveyard.” - Robert H. Jackson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Every person is unique, and their human rights are more important than any lofty goal, any mission, or any program. An individual's rights ARE the goal, ARE the mission, ARE the program.” - Ross Ulbricht npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Now rebadged as being ‘woke’, political correctness represents an existential threat to Western societies including concepts like rationality and reason, religious freedom and freedom of expression. We have entered an Orwellian world like 1984 where Big Brother and the Party control how citizens think and where anyone who questions the thought police is victimised, punished and silenced.” - Kevin Donnelly npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” - George Orwell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo.” - Salman Rushdie npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Free market capitalism cannot work without personal freedom.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Values in a free society are accepted voluntarily, not through coercion, and certainly not by law. Every time we write a law to control private behavior, we imply that somebody has to arrive with a gun.” - Ron Paul npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.” - Calvin Coolidge npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.” - Ludwig von Mises npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship.” - Judy Blume npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Does not everything that we take seriously betray us? It always shows what has weight for us and what does not.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.” - Naomi Klein npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Unknown npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Trump has no penis. That's why he is so angry all the time.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” - Hunter S Thompson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” - Hunter S Thompson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The political policies that are called conservative these days would appal any genuine conservative.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.” - Robert A. Heinlein npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.” - Anthony Daniels npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The use of “hacker” to mean “security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two.” - Richard Stallman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government.” - Benjamin Harvey Hill npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P. J. O'Rourke npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “There is as much wisdom in pain as in pleasure.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “‘Punishment’ is what revenge calls itself: it feigns a good conscience for itself with a lie.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It is one of the defects of modern higher education that it has become too much a training in the acquisition of certain kinds of skill, and too little an enlargement of the mind and heart by an impartial survey of the world.” - Bertrand Russell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If the sandal stitchers degenerate and pretend to be the craftsmen they aren’t, that’s not so awful; but if the guardians of the laws and the city aren’t what they seem, you see that they’ll utterly destroy the whole city, just as they alone are crucial to happiness and good government.” - Plato npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” - Plato npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “State is the name of the coldest of all cold monsters. Coldly it lies; and this lie slips from its mouth: 'I, the state, am the people.'” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “To ascribe to the State the power of dictating the laws of exchange, is to ignore the fundamental principles of money-using society.” - Ludwig von Mises npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It cannot be said too often — at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough — that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of.” - George Orwell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Stupidity multiplies unnecessary procedure, intelligence decreases it; therefore stupidity is the more functional from the bureaucratic point of view.” - Theodore Dalrymple npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The question is whether privileged elite should dominate mass communication and should use this power as they tell us they must—namely to impose necessary illusions, to manipulate and deceive the stupid majority and remove them from the public arena. The question in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than to cope with a bad reputation.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The idea that The State is capable of solving social problems is now viewed with great skepticism—which foretells a coming change. As soon as skepticism is applied to the State, the State falls, since it fails at everything except increasing its power, and so can only survive on propaganda, which relies on unquestioning faith.” - Stefan Molyneux npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.” - Julian Assange npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Bitcoin: come for the profits, stay for the principles.” - Quentin Lobb npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Governments create nothing and have nothing to give but what they have first taken away — you may put money in the pockets of one set of Englishmen, but it will be money taken from the pockets of another set of Englishmen, and the greater part will be spilled on the way. Every vote given for Protection is a vote to give Governments the right of robbing Peter to pay Paul and charging the public a handsome commission on the job.” - Winston Churchill npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “What is greatness? I will answer: it is the capacity to live by the three fundamental values of John Galt: reason, purpose, self-esteem.” - Ayn Rand npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The inflexibility of the laws, which prevents them from adapting themselves to circumstances, may, in certain cases, render them disastrous, and make them bring about, at a time of crisis, the ruin of the State.” - Jean-Jacques Rousseau npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “He who fights with monsters should see to it that he himself does not become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The Bitcoin network has been running for almost a year now. The design and coding started in 2007.” - Satoshi Nakamoto npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.” - Robert Wilensky
