“To survive, the people in neighborhoods are going to have to secede.”
Karl Hess
“Pride in being a law-abiding taxpayer is not the result of having helped people, which the person could have done far more effectively on a voluntary basis; the pride comes from having faithfully obeyed the commands of a perceived authority.”
Larken Rose
“Almost all the fathers of socialism were members of the upper middle class or of the professions.”
Ludwig von Mises
“Speak up, speak often and don’t worry about those that at this point cannot understand as they can never un-hear what we tell them.”
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
Seneca
“No person has the power to have everything they want, but it is in their power not to want what they don’t have, and to cheerfully put to good use what they do have.”
Seneca
“Life is very short and anxious for those who forget the past, neglect the present, and fear the future.”
Seneca
“If a man knows not which port he sails, no wind is favorable.”
“I begin to speak only when I’m certain what I’ll say isn’t better left unsaid.”
Cato
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl
“The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control. Where then do I look for good and evil? Not to uncontrollable externals, but within myself to the choices that are my own…”
Epictetus
“How does it help…to make troubles heavier by bemoaning them?”
“Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that, they make wonderfully submissive slaves.”
Joseph Sobran
“They are intent on making every conversation and every form of behaviour in the world known to them.”
Edward Snowden
“The revolution occurs when the victims cease to cooperate.”
Karl Hess
“Do this. Don’t do that. Stay back in line. Where’s tax receipt? Fill out form. Let’s see license. Submit six copies. Exit only. No left turn. No right turn. Queue up and pay fine. Take back and get stamped. Drop dead— but first get permit.”
“There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.”
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery
“The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect.”
Jonathan Swift
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
“A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.”
Frank Zappa
“It is a bad sign when the people of a country stop identifying themselves with the country and start identifying with a group. A racial group. Or a religion. Or a language. Anything, as long as it isn’t the whole population.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.”
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”
Noam Chomsky
“Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.”
Robert A. Heinlein
“What we should have fought for was representation without taxation.”
Sam Levenson
“The state is the mafia pretending to be a human rights organizations.”
