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Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie Chaplin
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One of the scariest things about our times is how easy it is to scare people and start a political stampede. There are people who could be upset if they were told that half of all Americans earn less than the median income—though of course that is the way median income is defined.
Thomas Sowell (via eltigrechico)
(via capitalismconcarne)
(Source: myrevolver, via the-soul-is-eternal)
(Source: thelogicallibertarian)
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It’s ironic that the black market is seen as the nemesis of a regulated market for the black market is only spawned when a regulated market fails to deliver the goods and prices necessary to satisfy the needs of market participants due to artificial blockades created by regulations.
A theory that I like to call Market Suicide by Overdose. (via sugashane)
(via maxlibertarios)
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When I went through the process of becoming press secretary, one of the first things they told me was, ‘You’re not even to acknowledge the drone program. You’re not even to discuss that it exists.’
Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, now an MSNBC contributor, on “Up with Chris Hayes” this morning. (via msnbc)
(Source: coitusandcarnage, via wakethesheeple)
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So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
Voltairine de Cleyre (via haereticum)
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The argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.
F.A. Hayek (via catharsisdiaries)
(Source: libertarianfolkster, via catharsisdiaries)
Big Government vs Big Business -Milton Friedman
