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Last Notes npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “No one owns truth. It evolves through discourse and facts revealed in time. The Earth was once the center of the Universe. Any fool could see the heavens revolve around it - an obvious truth. Truth evolves. Who owns the truth of vaccines?" - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Whenever the government fails to prevent a plane crash, the event is cited as justification for having the government prevent plane crashes.” - Harry Browne npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Totalitarianism is collectivism. Collectivism means the subjugation of the individual to a group — whether to a race, class or state does not matter. Collectivism holds that man must be chained to collective action and collective thought for the sake of what is called "the common good." Throughout history, no tyrant ever rose to power except on the claim of representing "the common good." Napoleon "served the common good" of France. Hitler is "serving the common good" of Germany. Horrors which no man would dare consider for his own selfish sake are perpetrated with a clear conscience by "altruists" who justify themselves by — the common good.” - Ayn Rand 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 “One lied, mendaciously inventing reasons for these laws, simply to avoid admitting that one had become used to these laws and no longer wanted things to be different.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The most fanatical attacks against gold are made by those intent upon credit expansion. With them credit expansion is the panacea for all economic ills.” - Ludwig von Mises npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “What is tradition? A higher authority which one obeys, not because it commands what is useful to us, but because it commands.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Bitcoin is a device for transferring wealth from the impatient to the patient.” - Stephan Livera npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “His whole nature fails to persuade; that is because he has never remained silent about any of his good deeds.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “What the government gives it must first take away.” - John S. Coleman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I sit on a man's back, choking him, and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by any means possible, except getting off his back.” - Leo Tolstoy npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “While it is desirable that the old should treat with respect the wishes of the young, it is not desirable that the young should treat with respect the wishes of the old. The reason is simple, namely that in either case it is the lives of the young that are concerned, not the lives of the old.” - Bertrand Russell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “One must be able at times to lose oneself if one wants to learn something from things that we ourselves are not.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Those coins can never be recovered, and the total circulation is less. Since the effective circulation is reduced, all the remaining coins are worth slightly more. It's the opposite of when a government prints money and the value of existing money goes down.” - Satoshi Nakamoto npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention, the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State; that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long-run sustains, nourishes and impels human destinies.” - Jose Ortega y Gasset npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men.” - Woodrow Wilson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It is impractical for anyone to develop wealth in government money without government acceptance. Government can confiscate money from the banking monopolies it controls, inflate the currency to devalue holders' wealth and reward it to the most loyal of its subjects, impose draconian taxes and punish those who avoid them, and even confiscate bills.” - Saifedean Ammous npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.” - Giorgio Agamben npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” - Benjamin N. Cardozo npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Being open source means anyone can independently review the code. If it was closed source, nobody could verify the security. I think it's essential for a program of this nature to be open source.” - Satoshi Nakamoto npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Many individuals in government don't seem to understand the laws of economics. ... They often brag at news conferences that their interception of drugs between producer and consumer has raised the 'street value' of the drugs, meaning that the drugs are now scarcer than they were. What these statists stubbornly refuse to acknowledge is that this only increases the market incentive to cash in on those higher prices by making up for the artificial scarcity.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.” - Walter Lippmann 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 “Once you've taken a public stand you know is right, never back down; anything less than a rock-hard stance will let your enemies nibble you to death.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The people are on the side of sound money. They are so unalterably on the side of sound money that it is a serious question how they would regard the system under which they live, if they once knew what the initiate can do with it.” - Henry Ford 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 don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. That's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build, and it's not something I'm willing to live under.” - Edward Snowden npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “To politicians, solved problems represent a dire threat - of unemployment and poverty. That's why no problem ever tackled by the government has ever been solved. What they want is lots of problems they can promise to solve, so that we'll keep electing them - or letting them keep their jobs in a bureaucracy metastasizing like cancer.” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Stay Humble. Stack Sats.” - ODELL npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “[Bitcoin's] mere existence is an insurance policy that will remind governments that the last object the establishment could control, namely, the currency, is no longer their monopoly. This gives us, the crowd, an insurance policy against an Orwellian future.” - Nassim Taleb npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Money should work like email. At the end of the day, it is information. It is simply an entry in a ledger, and why does it not work that way? It is because the money that we are used to predates the internet, was built by bankers, not technologists. Bitcoin is really the first money purpose-built for the internet.” - Tyler Winklevoss npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Free speech is not speech you agree with, uttered by someone you admire. It's speech that you find stupid, selfish, dangerous, uninformed or threatening, spoken and sponsored by someone you despise, fear or ridicule. Free speech is unpopular, contentious and sometimes ugly. It reflects a tolerance for differences. If everyone agreed on all things, we wouldn't need it.” - Robert J. Samuelson npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Taxes are an evil - a necessary evil, but still an evil, and the fewer of them we have the better.” - Winston Churchill npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Herein lies the value of free speech. It makes concealment difficult, and, in the long run, impossible. One heretic, if he is right, is as good as a host. He is bound to win in the long run. It is thus no wonder that foes of the enlightenment always begin their proceedings by trying to deny free speech to their opponents. It is dangerous to them and they know it. So they have at it by accusing these opponents of all sorts of grave crimes and misdemeanors, most of them clearly absurd - in other words, by calling them names and trying to scare them.” - H. L. Mencken npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I don't respect people unless I think they deserve the respect. There are people who think that respect is something that should be given, and I happen to be one of the people who is perfectly happy saying no; respect should be earned. And without being earned, you don't get it. It's really that simple.” - Linus Torvalds npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The more loathsome people that use bitcoin, the better. The more it works even if teeming with people that mutually despise each other, the more faith I have in its ability to protect us all.” - Nic Carter npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Hugs not drugs.... no wait, hugs AND drugs!” - Ross Ulbricht npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Whether it is the growth of the new schools of economics in America or England or the appearance of the so-called new philosophers in France, there is one unifying thread running through the intellectual work of these groups — rejection of the arbitrary power of the state, the refusal to subordinate the rights of the individual to the superstate, the realization that collectivism stifles all the best human impulses.” - Ronald Reagan npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Many a one cannot deliver himself from his own chains and yet he is his friend’s deliverer.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Experience teaches only the teachable.” - Aldous Huxley npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular, and even when, by the sheer strength of his case, he prevails, he is put down as a scoundrel.” - H. L. Mencken npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.” - Voltairine de Cleyre npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Why would anyone pay for followers? They would not be real followers. Like paying for pussy and not getting to touch it.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “One person devotes his life to helping the poor. Another one lies and steals. Still another person tries to create better products and services for which he hopes to be paid handsomely. One woman devotes herself to her husband and children. Another seeks a career as a singer. In every case, the basic motivation has been the same. Each person is doing what he believes will bring him happiness. What varies between them is the means each has chosen to gain his happiness.” - Harry Browne npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely to make him obey, but also to make him want to obey.” - H.L. Mencken npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “For it seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.” - Augustine of Hippo npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.” - Hunter S Thompson 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 monetary competition between easy government money and hard gold will likely result in one winner in the long‐run. Even in a world of government money, governments have not been able to decree gold's monetary role away, as their actions speak louder than their words.” - Saifedean Ammous npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “You average joe pot dealer, who wouldn't hurt a fly, that guy became my hero. By making his living outside the purview of the state, he was depriving it of his precious life force, the product of his efforts. He was free. People like him, little by little, weakened the state and strengthened the market.” - Ross Ulbricht npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “A leader leads by example not by force.” - Sun Tzu npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.” - George Bernard Shaw npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” - Benjamin Franklin npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.” - Albert Einstein 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 “If we are content with knowledge as a commodity, accessible only through a computerized bureaucracy, we can simply let companies provide it. But if we want to keep human knowledge open and freely available to humanity, we have to do the work to make it available that way.” - Richard Stallman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Which came first - The lies our government tells us, Or the lies we tell ourselves?” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The absence of a police state is that people are free, and if you don't commit crimes you can do what you want. But today, you can't open up a business, you can't develop land, you can't go to the bank, you can't go to the doctor without the government knowing what you're doing. They talk about medical privacy, that's gone. Financial privacy, that's gone. The right to own property, that's essentially gone. So you have to get permission from the government for almost everything. And if that is the definition of a police state, that you can't do anything unless the government gives you permission, we're well on our way. This is something that people eventually, I hope, will get sick and tired of, and say enough is enough.” - Ron Paul npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs. Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it is described as a toy. Just like microcomputers.” - Paul Graham npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If a private enterprise is a failure, it closes down - unless it can get a government subsidy to keep it going; if a government enterprise fails, it is expanded.” - Milton Friedman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “In order to rally people, governments need enemies. They want us to be afraid, to hate, so we will rally behind them. And if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one in order to mobilize us.” - Thích Nhất Hạnh npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “What is needed is an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust, allowing any two willing parties to transact directly with each other without the need for a trusted third party.” - Satoshi Nakamoto npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “There is one thing one has to have: either a cheerful disposition by nature or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Several excuses are always less convincing than one.” - Aldous Huxley npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves.” - Bertrand Russell npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “As in elections, the law pretended universal rights, while securing the interests of powerful houses.” - David Brin npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” - C.S. Lewis npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Lawsuits destroy community. They destroy trust.” - Linus Torvalds npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.” - Milton Friedman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Free men and women, of course, have often had to defend their own societies against foreign threats; but throughout history, war has usually been the common enemy of peaceful, productive people on all sides of the conflict.” - David D. Boaz npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.” - Calvin Coolidge npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If a politician won't trust you, why should you trust him?” - L. Neil Smith npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” - Mahatma Gandhi npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If people are saying, look, we gotta ban Bitcoin because it's somewhat anonymous and anonymous transactions can occur, or because it's possible for criminals to use it, all of those arguments can be used to say, just ban dollars.” - Jared Polis npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “No system of mass surveillance has existed in any society that we know of to this point that has not been abused.” - Edward Snowden npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “For those who stubbornly seek freedom around the world, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the propaganda system to which we are subjected and in which all too often we serve as unwilling or unwitting instruments.” - Noam Chomsky npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The champions of socialism call themselves progressives, but they recommend a system which is characterized by rigid observance of routine and by a resistance to every kind of improvement. They call themselves liberals, but they are intent upon abolishing liberty. They call themselves democrats, but they yearn for dictatorship. They call themselves revolutionaries, but they want to make the government omnipotent. They promise the blessings of the Garden of Eden, but they plan to transform the world into a gigantic post office. Every man but one a subordinate clerk in a bureau. What an alluring utopia! What a noble cause to fight!” - Ludwig von Mises npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Time preference is positive for all humans; there is always a discount on the future compared to the present.” - Saifedean Ammous npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “The War on Drugs has continued for some 20 years, and we see little prospect of peace, despite the fact that it has totally failed and given the US an imprisonment rate almost equal to Russia. I fear that the War on Copying could go on for decades as well. To end it, we will need to rethink the copyright system.” - Richard Stallman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “I don’t believe we shall ever have a good money again before we take the thing out of the hands of government, that is, we can’t take them violently out of the hands of government, all we can do is by some sly roundabout way introduce something they can’t stop.” - Friedrich Hayek, 1984 npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history.” - Richard Stallman npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Briefly, the State is that organization in society which attempts to maintain a monopoly of the use of force and violence in a given territorial area; in particular, it is the only organization in society that obtains its revenue not by voluntary contribution or payment for services rendered but by coercion.” - Murray Rothbard npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Slaves believe what their masters say. Propaganda falsely informs a slave citizenry. You believe anything authoritative.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Unknown npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Reports I'm a murderous psychopath have been greatly exaggerated.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “We are in danger of being overwhelmed with irredeemable paper, mere paper, representing not gold nor silver; no, Sir, representing nothing but broken promises, bad faith, bankrupt corporations, cheated creditors, and a ruined people.” - Daniel Webster npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Law is a bottomless pit.” - John Arbuthnot npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Since the only use of money is for exchange and reckoning, more dollars or pounds or marks in circulation cannot confer a social benefit: they will simply dilute the exchange value of every existing dollar or pound or mark.” - Murray Rothbard 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 “I did not reveal any US operations against legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private businesses because it is dangerous.” - Edward Snowden npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “If the majority holds something of value, you can be certain it has none.” - John McAfee npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.” - Henry L. Mencken npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Governments can be democratic or not, more or less corrupt, but they will still pursue the same basic goals, and they will still be controlled by an elite. Government by its very nature concentrates power and excludes people from making decisions over their own lives.” - Peter Gelderloos npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Proof-of-work has the nice property that it can be relayed through untrusted middlemen. We don't have to worry about a chain of custody of communication. It doesn't matter who tells you a longest chain, the proof-of-work speaks for itself.” - Satoshi Nakamoto npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves.” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “Statism is the Utopian ideal that just the right amount of violence used by just the right people in just the right direction can perfect society.” - Keith Hamburger npub1ms4z8e2fsgjh75vtk8c9pym50gjvp3uxl7uru8v7c7pnd9empadq2ulevr Quotes Bot “All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are essentially better than all the other causes in the world and refuse to believe that, if their cause is to prosper at all, it requires precisely the same evil-smelling manure as all other human undertakings have need of.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
