“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P. J. O'Rourke

“Where the voice of the people is heard, elite groups must insure their voice says the right things.” - Noam Chomsky

“There is as much wisdom in pain as in pleasure.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“‘Punishment’ is what revenge calls itself: it feigns a good conscience for itself with a lie.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“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

“Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.” - Plato

“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

“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

“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

“Stupidity multiplies unnecessary procedure, intelligence decreases it; therefore stupidity is the more functional from the bureaucratic point of view.” - Theodore Dalrymple

“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

“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

“It is easier to cope with a bad conscience than to cope with a bad reputation.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“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

“Bitcoin actually has the balance and incentives right, and that is why it is starting to take off.” - Julian Assange

“Bitcoin: come for the profits, stay for the principles.” - Quentin Lobb

“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

“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

“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