Really Cool Quotes

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“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
-Ayn Rand

 

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“A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years.”
-- Lysander Spooner

 

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“Man, no doubt, owes many other moral duties to his fellow men; such as to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, shelter the homeless, care for the sick, protect the defenseless, assist the weak, and enlighten the ignorant. But these are simply moral duties, of which each man must be his own judge, in each particular case, as to whether, and how, and how far, he can, or will perform them.”
-- Lysander Spooner

 

[Tudo]

“For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of everybody else, whose person or property is invaded. The natural right of each individual to defend his own person and property against an aggressor, and to go to the assistance and defence of every one else whose person or property is invaded, is a right without which men could not exist on earth.”
-- Lysander Spooner

 

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“Innovators and creative geniuses cannot be reared in schools. They are precisely the men who defy what the school has taught them.”
-- Ludwig von Mises

 

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“Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.”
-- Ludwig von Mises

 

[Rocky Mtn Squid]

RMS

 

[Tudo]

Reflexes had the better of me
And what is to be must be
Every day the bucket a-go a well
One day the bottom a-go drop out
One day the bottom a-go drop out
Bob Marley

 

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“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

 

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“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

 

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“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi

 

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The good thing about music is that when it hits you, you feel no pain” -Bob Marley

 

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“From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict with each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time”
― Friedrich August von Hayek

 

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“If socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists.”
― Friedrich Hayek

 

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“Probably it is true enough that the great majority are rarely capable of thinking independently, that on most questions they accept views which they find ready-made, and that they will be equally content if born or coaxed into one set of beliefs or another. In any society freedom of thought will probably be of direct significance only for a small minority. But this does not mean that anyone is competent, or ought to have power, to select those to whom this freedom is to be reserved. It certainly does not justify the presumption of any group of people to claim the right to determine what people ought to think or believe.”
― Friedrich August von Hayek

 

[Tudo]

Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
Tacitus

 

[Tudo]

 

[Petrochemical]

Money is the root of all evil

 

[D. B. Doober]

Human nature was originally one, and we were a whole.
The desire and pursuit of the whole, is called "love"
Socrates

 

[PetFlora]

From All the President's Men "When you've got them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"