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1423: Ludwig von Mises – Anarchism

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W1423: Ludwig von Mises – Anarchism — Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. — Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. — Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. — Ludwig von Mises

Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. — Ludwig von Mises — People often fail to perceive the fundamental difference between the liberal and the anarchistic idea. Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. It wishes in fact to abolish the State and the legal order, because it believes that society could do better without them. It does not fear anarchical disorder because it believes that without compulsion men would unite for social co-operation and would behave in the manner that social life demands.

Anarchism as such is neither liberal nor socialistic: it moves on a different plane from either. Whoever denies the basic idea of Anarchism, whoever denies that it is or ever will be possible to unite men without coercion under a binding legal order for peaceful co-operation, will, whether liberal or socialist, repudiate anarchistic ideals.

— Ludwig von Mises (Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis)

Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. — Ludwig von Mises — People often fail to perceive the fundamental difference between the liberal and the anarchistic idea. Anarchism rejects all coercive social organizations, and repudiates coercion as a social technique. It wishes in fact to abolish the State and the legal order, because it believes that society could do better without them. It does not fear anarchical disorder because it believes that without compulsion men would unite for social co-operation and would behave in the manner that social life demands.

Anarchism as such is neither liberal nor socialistic: it moves on a different plane from either. Whoever denies the basic idea of Anarchism, whoever denies that it is or ever will be possible to unite men without coercion under a binding legal order for peaceful co-operation, will, whether liberal or socialist, repudiate anarchistic ideals.

— Ludwig von Mises (Socialism: An Economic and Sociological Analysis)

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1419: Caitlin Johnstone – Being Anti-War

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W1419: Caitlin Johnstone - Being Anti-War — Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone — Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts.

Virtually everyone will tell you they love peace and hate war; war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it.

But when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to oppose war and push for peace, those who’d previously proclaimed themselves “anti-war” are on the other side screaming for more weapons to be poured into a proxy war that their government deliberately provoked.

This is because the theory of being anti-war is very different from the practice. — Caitlin A. Johnstone

Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts. —Caitlin A. Johnstone — Everyone’s anti-war until the war propaganda starts.

Virtually everyone will tell you they love peace and hate war; war is the very worst thing in the world, and no healthy person relishes the thought of it.

But when the rubber meets the road and it’s time to oppose war and push for peace, those who’d previously proclaimed themselves “anti-war” are on the other side screaming for more weapons to be poured into a proxy war that their government deliberately provoked.

This is because the theory of being anti-war is very different from the practice. — Caitlin A. Johnstone

1404: Ayn Rand – Statism is Perpetual Violence

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W1404: Ayn Rand - Statism is Perpetual Violence — Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

Statism is a system of institutionalized violence and perpetual civil war. It leaves men no choice but to fight to seize political power—to rob or be robbed, to kill or be killed. When brute force is the only criterion of social conduct, and unresisting surrender to destruction is the only alternative, even the lowest of men, even an animal—even a cornered rat—will fight. There can be no peace within an enslaved nation. —Ayn Rand

Tags American anarchists, American atheists, American libertarians, American writers, Ayn Rand, Choice, Coercion, Government, Men, Peace, Politics, Statism, Violence, Voting
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1393: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Live Not By Lies

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F1393: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn – Live Not By Lies — We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble: “But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.” We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence.

We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble: “But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.” We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence. — We are approaching the brink; already a universal spiritual demise is upon us; a physical one is about to flare up and engulf us and our children, while we continue to smile sheepishly and babble: “But what can we do to stop it? We haven’t the strength.” We have so hopelessly ceded our humanity that for the modest handouts of today we are ready to surrender up all principles, our soul, all the labors of our ancestors, all the prospects of our descendants—anything to avoid disrupting our meager existence.

When violence bursts onto the peaceful human condition, its face is flush with self-assurance, it displays on its banner and proclaims: “I am Violence! Make way, step aside, I will crush you!” But violence ages swiftly, a few years pass—and it is no longer sure of itself. To prop itself up, to appear decent, it will without fail call forth its ally—Lies. For violence has nothing to cover itself with but lies, and lies can only persist through violence. And it is not every day and not on every shoulder that violence brings down its heavy hand: It demands of us only a submission to lies, a daily participation in deceit—and this suffices as our fealty.

And therein we find, neglected by us, the simplest, the most accessible key to our liberation: a personal nonparticipation in lies! Even if all is covered by lies, even if all is under their rule, let us resist in the smallest way: Let their rule hold not through me!

—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1343: Scott Horton – It Would Be At the Expense of Our Liberty

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W1343: Scott Horton – It Would Be At the Expense of Our Liberty — Even if somehow waging violent coups and regime change wars across the planet could guarantee freedom for those people, it would necessarily come at the expense of those whose lives and liberty our government is actually sworn to protect: ours. —Scott Horton

Even if somehow waging violent coups and regime change wars across the planet could guarantee freedom for those people, it would necessarily come at the expense of those whose lives and liberty our government is actually sworn to protect: ours. —Scott Horton

Even if somehow waging violent coups and regime change wars across the planet could guarantee freedom for those people, it would necessarily come at the expense of those whose lives and liberty our government is actually sworn to protect: ours. —Scott Horton

Even if somehow waging violent coups and regime change wars across the planet could guarantee freedom for those people, it would necessarily come at the expense of those whose lives and liberty our government is actually sworn to protect: ours. —Scott Horton

Even if somehow waging violent coups and regime change wars across the planet could guarantee freedom for those people, it would necessarily come at the expense of those whose lives and liberty our government is actually sworn to protect: ours. —Scott Horton

1341: Lauren Southern – They have a Cartoonish Worldview

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W1341: Lauren Southern - They have a Cartoonish Worldview — The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, "Your Welcome" with Michael Malice #198

The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern,

The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern,

The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, — The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, “Your Welcome” with Michael Malice #198

The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, — The terrifying thing is the less likely someone is to point Ukraine on the map the more likely it is that they want their country to go to war. They have no idea of any of the history. They look at it from a cartoonish worldview. —Lauren Southern, “Your Welcome” with Michael Malice #198

1331: John Mearsheimer – Midas Touch but in Reverse

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W1331: John Mearsheimer — Midas Touch but in Reverse — The United States' Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

The United States' Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

The United States' Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

The United States' Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago — The United States’ Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

The United States' Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago — The United States’ Foreign Policy is the Midas Touch but in reverse. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, the list goes on… —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

1329: John Mearsheimer – Twiddledum and Twiddledee

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W1329: John Mearsheimer: Twiddledum and Twiddledee — As far as I'm concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There's just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

As far as I'm concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There's just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

As far as I'm concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There's just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

As far as I'm concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There's just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago — As far as I’m concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There’s just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

As far as I'm concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There's just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago — As far as I’m concerned the Republicans and the Democrats on Foreign Policy are like Twiddledum and Twiddledee. There’s just no difference between them. —John Mearsheimer, University of Chicago

1284: Henry George – What Protectionism Teaches Us

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W1284: Henry George - What Protectionism Teaches Us — What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George

What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George

What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George

What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George

What protectionism teaches us is to do to ourselves in times of peace what enemies seek to do to us in time of war. —Henry George