The market is sovereign and in the magic economy of the small entrepreneur there is no authoritarian center... in the political sphere...… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man his material… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
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Private property in the instruments of production is an institutional device both for dispersing power and for securing effective organization of production.… — Henry Calvert Simons Copy Share Image
“Why do you demand of me a heroism that perhaps you have not either? It is despotism; it is tyranny. If I… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The first time I read the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, my instinctive reaction was, so what’s wrong with THAT? Isn’t… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
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The East knew and to the present day knows only that One is Free; the Greek and the Roman world, that some… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
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What is hateful is not rebellion but the despotism which induces the rebellion; what is hateful are not rebels but the men,… — Wilfrid Laurier Copy Share Image
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A warlike nation like the Germans, without either cities, letters, arts, or money, found some compensation for this savage state in the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
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They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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Freemasonry teaches not merely temperance, fortitude, prudence, justice, brotherly love, relief, and truth, but liberty, equality, and fraternity, and it denounces ignorance,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
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