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Libertarian Quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

8 Libertarian quotes by Robert Anton Wilson

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If you’re curious about how a countercultural mind frames liberty, this handful of Wilson’s musings offers a vivid snapshot. His playful paradoxes and sharp wit give a taste of his broader take on freedom, making it a solid primer for anyone new to his style.

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Show me a movement that doesn't hate somebody and I will join it at once.

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... I have developed, over the years, some sense of the difference between real horseshit that you can step in and Ideal…

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To work for libertarianism - to oppose the growth of government and aid the liberation of the individual - used to be…

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Science, incidentally, not only ignores the question of indwelling 'essences' by looking instead at measurable relationships, but science also does not agree…

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To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare…

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Taking somebody's money without permission is stealing, unless you work for the IRS; then it's taxation. Killing people en masse is homicidal…

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My early work is politically anarchist fiction, in that I was an anarchist for a long period of time. I'm not an…

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It became quite clear to me that the Natural Law mystique, in Catholic, libertarian or neo-pagan forms, remains basically a set of…

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Every fact of science was once Damned. Every invention was considered impossible. Every discovery was a nervous shock to some orthodoxy. Every artistic innovation…

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The only way to stave off boredom, in a complex domesticated primate like humankind, is to increase one's intelligence. This is not appealing to…

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Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

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In every state of the Union, Fundamentalists still fight to ban all the science they dislike and prosecute all who teach it. To them,…

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It is a great privilege to be conscious in this universe. Those who understand, shine like stars.

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I will do anything, including highway robbery and murder, to avoid leaving my children in poverty.

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I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to…

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“Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think. I detect the…

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I like pacifists and people who have a heavy emotional identification with deathism and war would probably call me a pacifist, but I am…

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Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.

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The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too,…

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“When you're dealing with these forces or powers in a philosophic and scientific way, contemplating them from an armchair, that rationalistic approach is useful.…

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“And Spaceship Earth, that glorious and bloody circus, continued its four-billion-year-long spiral orbit about the Sun; the engineering, I must admit, was so exquisite…

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Existence is larger than any model that is not itself the exact size of existence (which has no size).

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The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.

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