“The dominant propaganda systems have appropriated the term "globalization" to refer to the specific version of international economic integration that they favor... those who favor a different form of international integration, which privileges the rights of human beings, become "anti-globalist." This is simply vulgar propaganda... It is not only vulgar, but idiotic. Take the World Social Forum, called "anti-globalization" in the propaganda system... It is a gathering of huge numbers of people from all over the world, from just about every corner of life one can think of, apart from the extremely narrow, highly privileged elites who meet at the competing World Economic Forum, and are called "pro-globalization" by the propaganda system.” - Noam Chomsky
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“EFI is this other Intel brain-damage (the first one being ACPI).” - Linus Torvalds
“If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind?” - Frédéric Bastiat
“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
“The fact is - and this is something the state worshippers are prone to overlook - that the comforts, emoluments, and adulation that go with political office have great influence on political policy; for the state consists of men, and men are, unfortunately, always human. And so, liberalism mutated into its exact opposite by the end of the nineteenth century. Today it is the synonym of statism.” - Frank Chodorov
“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
“As ecstatic as governments can be when citizens in other, “bad” countries take charge of their lives, they are equally terrified when citizens of their own country use the same technology to take charge of their lives where there is a “good” government.” - Rick Falkvinge
“Bitcoin number go up means state power go down.” - Stephen Cole
“Laws are only observed with the consent of the individuals concerned and a moral change still depends on the individual and not on the passage of any law.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“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
“To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom.” - Sen. Barry Goldwater
“The price of admission in bitcoin is your ego. The price of admission in the fiat system is your soul.” - Anil
“There is as much wisdom in pain as in pleasure.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“If the coercion of government can endow one person with property he hasn't earned, then everyone will want to use government to get something he wants. So it's not surprising that, over the past two centuries, more and more people have concluded that they deserve government's help.” - Harry Browne
“The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.” - H. L. Mencken
“When a government taxes you, it takes something you own without your consent. That’s exactly what a thief does. The main difference is that the thief is breaking the law, whereas the government is (usually) taking your money legally.” - David R. Henderson
“Never keep back or bury in silence that which can be thought against your thoughts! Give it praise! It is among the foremost requirements of honesty of thought. Every day you must conduct your campaign also against yourself. A victory and a conquered fortress are no longer your concern, your concern is truth!” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“The greatest threat to a robust, autonomous civil society is the ever-growing Leviathan state.” - Charles Krauthammer
“He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.” - Friedrich Nietzsche
“Bills were passed, not only for national objects but for individual cases, and laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt.” - Tacitus