“That a theory is refutable is, frankly, not the least of its charms: this is precisely how it attracts the more refined intellects.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
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“We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“To make a bank, was a great plot of state; invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.” - Andrew Marvell
“Choose your allies carefully: it's highly unlikely that you'll ever be held morally, legally, or historically accountable for the actions of your enemies.” - L. Neil Smith
“Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.” - Agatha Christie
“Bitcoin far outshines the US Dollar in every aspect as a value token for international trade.” - Rick Falkvinge
“If government manages to establish paper tickets or bank credit as money, as equivalent to gold grams or ounces, then the government, as dominant money-supplier, becomes free to create money costlessly and at will. As a result, this 'inflation' of the money supply destroys the value of the dollar or pound, drives up prices, cripples economic calculation, and hobbles and seriously damages the workings of the market economy.” - Murray Rothbard
“We rarely change an individual; and should we succeed, something else may have been accomplished, unnoticed: we may have been changed through him!” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The function of the lawyer is to preserve a sceptical relativism in a society hell-bent for absolutes. The worse the society, the more law there will be. In Hell there will be nothing but law and due process will be meticulously observed.” - Grant Gilmore
“All governments consider themselves good. It’s just the citizens who tend to disagree to varying degrees.” - Rick Falkvinge
“Sometimes I think it would be easier to explain why Bitcoin matters to someone in England 800 years ago than it is to do so today.” - David Lawant
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” - Aldous Huxley
“Bitcoin is a seed of hope in a society which lost vision years ago and perspective just recently.” - Kim Neunert
“If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” - George Orwell
“We have heard much these past few years of how the government protects the consumer. A far more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.” - Milton Friedman
“Money should buy you one thing only and that is freedom.” - Max Berger
“Bitcoin is super, super resilient.” - Cameron Winklevoss
“Trying to ban free trade is as unjust as trying to legislate what may be discussed in everyday speech.” - Rick Falkvinge
“Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is of the essence of knowledge.” - Friedrich Nietzsche