“Democracy passes into despotism.” - Plato

“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

“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

“Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“If government will not instill discipline, markets will. The dollar will collapse into worthlessness.” - Patrick Barron

“Why is propaganda so much more successful when it stirs up hatred than when it tries to stir up friendly feeling?” - Bertrand Russell

“Law is a bottomless pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours everything.” - John Arbuthnot

“One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a kleptocracy, meaning 'rule by thieves'. Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won't willingly fork over to end poverty, then maybe they'll cough up to fight drugs or terrorism. Conflicting ideologies, as presently constituted, are nothing more than a cover for what's really going on, like the colors of competing gangs.” - L. Neil Smith

“A lot of people automatically dismiss e-currency as a lost cause because of all the companies that failed since the 1990's. I hope it's obvious it was only the centrally controlled nature of those systems that doomed them. I think this is the first time we're trying a decentralized, non-trust-based system.” - Satoshi Nakamoto

“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

“Government lets people take from others without having to face the people being hurt.” - Harry Browne

“The newspapers do an immense amount of thinking for the average man and woman. In fact they supply them with such a continuous stream of standardised opinion, borne along upon an equally inexhaustible flood of news and sensation, collected from every part of the world every hour of the day, that there is neither the need nor the leisure for personal reflection.” - Winston Churchill

“Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.” - Edward Snowden

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” - George Orwell

“Bitcoin is a high-tech implementation of 19th century economic ideas. It's a restorative, not progressive technology.” - Nic Carter

“The price of admission in bitcoin is your ego. The price of admission in the fiat system is your soul.” - Anil

“Some may never live, but the crazy never die.” - Hunter S Thompson

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.” - Plato

“I hope more and more people stop asking for permission. Just build what they want.” - Jack Dorsey