“Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.” - Noam Chomsky
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“We know too little and are bad learners: so we have to lie.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Today, racism is regarded as a crime if practiced by a majority—but as an inalienable right if practiced by a minority.” - Ayn Rand
“Bitcoin has a huge advantage over gold in transactions: clearance does not require a specific custodian. No government can control what code you have in your head.” - Nassim Taleb
“Socialism is, among other things, the political habitat of low self-esteem, incompetence, self-loathing, and a willingness to steal – or have stolen for you — what you are unable or unwilling to work for.” - L. Neil Smith
“It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship.” - Judy Blume
“Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.” - Walt Disney
“Does not everything that we take seriously betray us? It always shows what has weight for us and what does not.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Free speech is meaningless if the commercial cacophony has risen to the point where no one can hear you.” - Naomi Klein
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” - Unknown
“Trump has no penis. That's why he is so angry all the time.” - John McAfee
“I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.” - Hunter S Thompson
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.” - Hunter S Thompson
“What is the seal of liberation? No longer being ashamed in front of oneself.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The political policies that are called conservative these days would appal any genuine conservative.” - Noam Chomsky
“Any law that is not enforced and can’t be enforced weakens all other laws.” - Robert A. Heinlein
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity.” - Anthony Daniels
“The use of “hacker” to mean “security breaker” is a confusion on the part of the mass media. We hackers refuse to recognize that meaning, and continue using the word to mean someone who loves to program, someone who enjoys playful cleverness, or the combination of the two.” - Richard Stallman
“I do not dread these corporations as instruments of power to destroy this country, because there are a thousand agencies which can regulate, restrain, and control them; but there is a corporation we may all well dread. That corporation is the Federal Government.” - Benjamin Harvey Hill
“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” - P. J. O'Rourke