“Now rebadged as being ‘woke’, political correctness represents an existential threat to Western societies including concepts like rationality and reason, religious freedom and freedom of expression. We have entered an Orwellian world like 1984 where Big Brother and the Party control how citizens think and where anyone who questions the thought police is victimised, punished and silenced.” - Kevin Donnelly

“Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.” - George Orwell

“Maybe we ought to see that every person who gets a tax return receives a copy of the Communist Manifesto with it so he can see what's happening to him.” - T. Coleman Andrews

“We don't have to have this big giant massive collapse. It just organically blows up, one-by-one, as people move to a harder, sounder money. And in the process, Bitcoin becomes a black hole on the world's balance sheet.” - Trace Mayer

“Reprehensible ideas don’t disappear if you make them illegal, by driving them under the carpet you might feed them, or make them taboo.” - Salman Rushdie

“If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.” - Benjamin Franklin

“Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.” - Oliver Goldsmith

“Free market capitalism cannot work without personal freedom.” - John McAfee

“Thank heaven that we don’t get all of the government that we are made to pay for.” - Milton Friedman

“Values in a free society are accepted voluntarily, not through coercion, and certainly not by law. Every time we write a law to control private behavior, we imply that somebody has to arrive with a gun.” - Ron Paul

“How many niches have yet to be filled in the world of anonymous online markets? The opportunity to prosper and take part in a revolution of epic proportions is at our fingertips!” - Ross Ulbricht

“Every action you take outside the scope of government control strengthens the market and weakens the state.” - Ross Ulbricht

“It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.” - Calvin Coolidge

“Bitcoin can be best understood as distributed software that allows for transfer of value using a currency protected from unexpected inflation without relying on trusted third parties.” - Saifedean Ammous

“It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money.” - Frederick Douglass

“Every single transaction that takes place outside the nexus of state control is a victory for those individuals taking part in the transaction.” - Ross Ulbricht

“The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.” - Ludwig von Mises

“These young men lack neither character nor talent nor industry: but they have never been allowed time to choose a course for themselves; on the contrary, they have been accustomed from childhood onwards to being given a course by someone else.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.” - Salvador Dalí

“Where the state lacks means of coercion, it is important to control what people think.” - Noam Chomsky