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There are two types of people in the world: People who think the government is looking out for their best interest and people who think. Nathan Fraser

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde

If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind? Frederic Bastiat

Yes, anarchy is order, government is civil war. Anselme Bellegarrigue

The only way not to lose a rigged game is not to play. When the ruling classes exempt themselves from the ‘laws’ they expect us to live by, there is tyranny. The political, financial and military complexes have become one interwoven system of corporate fascism based on lies and deceit. It is more vulnerable than people think, as it requires our continued co-operation for it to maintain its illusion of legitimacy. When we choose to stop playing the game we dissolve the façade of presumed authority over us. To destroy a lie, live the truth. Unknown

Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed. Their mistaken course stems from false notions of equality. Equality, rightly understood leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences. Wrongly understood it leads first to conformity and then to despotism. Barry Goldwater

Fortunately, some are born with spiritual immune systems that sooner or later give rejection to the illusory worldview grafted upon them from birth through social conditioning. They begin sensing that something is amiss, and start looking for answers. Inner knowledge and anomalous outer experiences show them a side of reality others are oblivious to, and so begins their journey of awakening. Each step of the journey is made by following the heart instead of following the crowd and by choosing knowledge over the veils of ignorance. Henri Bergson

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

Voting […] has become a farce, if indeed it was ever anything else. By voting, the people decide only which of the oligarchs preselected for them as viable candidates will wield the whip used to flog them and will command the legion of willing accomplices and anointed lickspittles who perpetrate the countless violations of the people’s natural rights. Meanwhile, the masters soothe the masses by assuring them night and day that they — the plundered and bullied multitudes who compose the electorate — are themselves the government.Robert Higgs

The organizing principle of centralism was necessary only for the individual ruler who, from one place, wanted to dominate larger countries at the same time in order to squeeze interest from them. To this end, they were compelled to appoint ministers to their courts, and to send statesmen to the provinces.
Now one must always keep in mind that this was not necessary for the life of the subjugated peoples, but that this central government was created only by the ruler who conquered power for the purpose of collecting taxes and later influencing peoples opinion in favor of the ruler. Augustin Souchy

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. Mark Twain

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they. How did this change come about? I do not know. Jean Jacques Rousseau

Man’s right to know, to learn, to inquire, to make bona fide errors, to investigate human emotions must, by all means, be safe if the word Freedom should ever be more than an empty political slogan. Wilhelm Reich

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made; through disobedience and through rebellion. Oscar Wilde

The Master does his job and then stops. He understands that the universe is forever out of control, and that trying to dominate events goes against the current of the Tao. Because he believes in himself, he doesn’t try to convince others. Because he is content with himself, he doesn’t need others’ approval. Because he accepts himself, the whole world accepts him. Tao Te Ching

Being honest may not get you many friends but it’ll always get you the right ones. John Lennon

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. Artur Schopenhauer

The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity. J.R.R. Tolkien

The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it. John Kenneth Galbraith