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2014 December 19
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"People unfit for freedom -- who cannot do much with it -- are hungry for power. The desire for freedom is an attribute of a "have" type of self. It says: leave me alone and I shall grow, learn, and realize my capacities. The desire for power is basically an attribute of a "have not" type of self." |
"When a government takes over a people’s economic life it becomes
absolute, and when it has become absolute it destroys the arts,
the minds, the liberties and the meaning of the people it governs." |
"... real anarchism, feasible and actual, as opposed to mere emotional statements, is simply the [classical] liberal economy, and everything that goes with it: political democracy, civil (and not only civic) liberty, free, unsubsidized, unplanned culture. It is only the liberal economy that can favor the "withering away of the state" and of politics – their withering away or at least their limitation; centralized socialism cannot achieve this." |
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2014 December 18
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"Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence --
those are the three pillars of Western prosperity." |
"True liberty cannot exist apart from the full rights of property,
for property is the only crystallized form of free faculties...
The whole meaning of socialism is a systematic glorification of force...
No literary phrases about social organisms are potent enough to evaporate
the individual, who is the prime, indispensable, irreducible element." |
"What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?" |
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2014 December 17
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"Against individualism, the fascist conception is for the State;
and it is for the individual in so far as he coincides with the State,
which is the conscience and universal will of man..." |
"To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility." |
"When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed,
democracy will inevitably destroy itself." |
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2014 December 16
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"The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of 'liberalism' they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." |
"The government of the world was [Cecil] Rhodes' simple desire." |
"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." |
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2014 December 15
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"Security is mostly superstition." |
"Government by idea tends to take in everything,
to make the whole of society obedient to the idea.
Spaces not so governed are unconquered,
beyond the border, unconverted, a future danger." |
"The Tenth Commandment sends a message
to socialists, to egalitarians, to people obsessed with fairness,
to American presidential candidates in the year 2000 --
to everyone who believes that wealth should be redistributed.
And that message is clear and concise: Go to Hell." |
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